temperor

This is a desperate article trying to paint Apple as the monopolist and doing the same thing it is blocking others to do. Though these are 2 separate domains of advertisement. ATT is by the way not blocking anything, it is just asking user consent, period ... 
If I do a google search in safari, I get targeted add's, that has nothing to do with tracking and is contextual ... Same as Apple is doing for the App store. But hey lots of Politicians are probably reading this and go oh wow, Apple is anticompetitive, we need to stop them. This is nothing more then shady journalism by FT or at least not well explained so that lots of people will come to the wrong conclusion, I do not know what is worse.

Ow the Irony, if Apple ever needs to open up the Appstore, you know who will win, Google and Facebook as they are true monopolies in their markets, which they can abuse to push out Apple in the App market ...
so actually the biggest winners in this so called monopoly wars will be the biggest monopolies (as there are no competitors to FB or GOOG, hey not even MS is able to bring Bing to the table) 
talking about Irony ... 

This is Proton, painting Apple as Evil, there was no issue, they knew exactly that this would happen, and staged this on purpose. they where approved in the past and took this opportunity to stir the anti Apple sentiment. Just change the wording as it was and move on. Apple is not a government and should stay away from politics that is why the guideline is there in the first place. Judging by the comments, they are either Proton Employees or they just do not see that they are being manipulated ...

One side of the story, probably the student knew all to well and he did not react to the request of clarification, getting external attention is worth a lot of "free" publicity, I'm sure everything could have been cleared out without the need of involving some external media attention. It's becoming a way for developers small and big to get a lot of attention, leading to more downloads. Plus in this cynic world it's another argument to play the david versus goliath theme painting big tech as to powerful and monopolistic behaviour ...

So for the nitwits responding here all smoke and mirrors and automated testing. This will take time to get perfect. Developers not playing by the book can simply disable time based code so that it passes the review. Once in the store the feature can becomes active. But fear not Apple will catch that eventually and they will get a warning and the boot when they do not comply ... 
By the logic of some here you should not lock your house, because hey one can enter if they really want. I applaud Apple for taking these steps and as always it will take time to perfect, but in this day and age instant everything is the motto, but hey arm chair comments are so easy and seem so valuable, though the once that make them never seem to think this completely through. Privacy and security take time and is an never ending cat and mouse race ...