Apple Music API Limitation

Question

I am planning to use the Apple Music API (Apple Music Catalog) to search through songs in my app. By reading the docs and stack overflow I know that there is a rate limit however I am wondering if this limit affects all users using the app or per user base.

In the docs it says

"If you are requesting anything from the Apple Music Catalog, the request will hit Apple's cache first, which doesn't check your rate limit. If you are requesting anything from a personalized endpoint, calling it will always check the rate limit."

Does this mean that Apple Music Catalog does not have a rate limit? It may be a silly question but I'm very confused...

Answer 1

You receive the Too Many Requests (429) error when you exceed your request capacity as determined by the server.

I think this line means that API has certain rate limit only to prevent bad Joes from exploiting their servers.

However, I have found this on Apple developer forum: https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/110457