> It'll probably need to be another lawsuit since it's in the developer agreement.
Mind you, you can be blocked from doing needed Apple dev stuff (eg sign binaries, etc) until you've manually logged into your Apple account and clicked on the "I accept" button whenever they change terms.
This happened to us (sqlitebrowser.org) in recent weeks, as our CI just stopped working one day.
It turns out there was a new developer agreement that needed signing, and until I'd logged in and done that then Apples servers would no longer sign binaries.
There's literally no choice but to sign the things - regardless of terms - if you want your users to have software that runs.
>There's literally no choice but to sign the things - regardless of terms - if you want your users to have software that runs.
This gets to be a real nightmare in large organizations with multiple Apple Dev Portal admins, some of which may not even be authorized to sign legal documents on behalf of the company.
It’s a pain even in small orgs. There are some things only the account owner can do. You can make someone else an admin with every possible authorization, and if the person who set up the account is tied up or out of office, a whole dev team and testing can be stopped.
It's a massive pain when working with non-technical entities. Both professionally and in my side-business I have to do this and it's a horrible experience. I'll pay the damn $99/yr, just let me admin everything for the client. Tracking down the owner and getting them to login and click a button is harder than it sounds and it brings updates (even internal on TF) to a screeching halt.
EU already forbids consumer contracts from e.g. having the business force a change of terms (though ending the contract on disagreement might count as good enough behavior).
I suspect if the EU courts consider denying access to a website if they refuse GDPR permissions illegal they'll probably consider ending a contract based on not accepting new terms as forced.
Mind you, you can be blocked from doing needed Apple dev stuff (eg sign binaries, etc) until you've manually logged into your Apple account and clicked on the "I accept" button whenever they change terms.
This happened to us (sqlitebrowser.org) in recent weeks, as our CI just stopped working one day.
It turns out there was a new developer agreement that needed signing, and until I'd logged in and done that then Apples servers would no longer sign binaries.
There's literally no choice but to sign the things - regardless of terms - if you want your users to have software that runs.