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Apple Rejects iPhone App As Competitive To iTunes
DaveyJJ sends news of yet another rejection of an iPhone app by Apple, with perhaps a chilling twist for potential developers of productivity or utility apps. John Gruber of Daring Fireball writes: "Let's be clear: forbidding 'duplication of functionality' is forbidding competition. The point of competition is to do the same thing, but better." Paul Kafasis (co-founder of Rogue Amoeba Software) makes the point that this action by Apple will scare talented developers away from the iPhone platform. And Dave Weiner argues that the iPhone isn't a "platform" at all: "The idea that it's a platform should mean no individual or company has the power to turn you off."
As an iPhone developer, I hope it will too. Less competition for me. :-)
I'm on an iPhone so take this as you will.
my phone, their app store. no one is bitching about not being able to buy windows vista or a Zen at an apple retail location.
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
Come on in, the water's fine in the Openmoko pool! A truly free platform, and anything compiled for Linux on an ARM CPU will run (assuming the dependencies are also present).
Admit it. You post strawman arguments as AC so you get modded Insightful for refuting them, rather than Troll
It wouldn't be a problem if anyone could set up their own app store to distribute software to iPhone users.
I'm also an iPhone owner, people and companies are already doing this.
A vast amount of iPhone users have their phones jailbroken (if this poll posted earlier today is any indication, it would seem the majority do) thanks to the iphone-dev team. Cydia is a GUI application installed which uses apt at the backend, just like debian/ubuntu, for installing third party software. Pretty much anyone can get an app listed in the default sources, or you could make your own repository.
Fuck 'em. There's competition licking at their heals,
There's competition licking at their recovery from injury? I'm trying to picture that and my imagination keeps coming up with some truly weird shit.
They should allow it, and sell zunes in the apple store.
Only asshats post as AC
The competition honesty isn't up to scratch yet.
Not up to scratch?? Well... I guess it depends on your POV.
But I fully agree, that "The iPhone is a piece of shit, and :D
so is your face."!
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Exactly... The iPhone app store is Apple's first attempt at NOT treating third party developers with utter contempt. They're having growing pains. I bet in a few years, they'll be much better. They might even stop poisoning 3rd party developers' food and kicking their dogs.