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This is a very misleading title, the CEO of Unity didn't promise 'Uninterrupted Service'

The only thing he said was:

We have a great relationship with Apple and will do everything we can to comply with Apple’s TOS (also, these are ‘beta TOS’, and these easily get changed) so that we can provide uninterrupted service to our more than 120K users.

Which means he will do everything they can to comply..the final decision is still in Apple's hands.

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Well, that is a promise.

Edit because of downvoting:

I'm no expert in English but it seems that http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=promise defines promise as a verbal commitment by one person to another agreeing to do (or not to do) something in the future

Which is what Unity developers just did.

The operative words being "everything we can." If they can't offer that, then they can't. It's a contingency guarantee, not a promise.

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