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How does that square with "You agree to let us use, display, store, and reproduce the content in your RSS feeds including placing advertising next to or near your content without compensation to you."?

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Honestly no idea. I'd imagine that's just in case they change their mind? The email itself was very poorly thought through (and is honestly quite arrogant).

It seems common for big companies to put things in their legal agreements that are stupid and unfair and are never intended to actually be used. I don't know why.

Because there's usually no downside? The same reason people put those goofy "this message is for the intended recipient only..." notes in their sig file. It almost certainly has no legal force ever but it doesn't hurt.

It squares perfectly. That line says Apple won't pay you for _impressions_. It doesn't say they won't pay you for clicks.

That is an extremely tortured reading of the e-mail. And it's not true. See:

https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documenta...

Apple pays you 70% or 100% of ad revenue if you use their Apple News Format. Apple pays you nothing if you use RSS.

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