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."

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Re:One Can Hope

[mvdwege]

How about Windows Mobile 5 taking up to 5 seconds to change screen orientation, while interrupting an ongoing call on a stock TyTN II when you slide the keyboard in or out? Don't give me that "it's all the third-party applications'" crap, you Microsoft weenie. We got those damn WM phones as part of our corporate contract, and by the time we renewed that, we went with Nokia for a reason. At least Nokia is a phone manufacturer primarily, not a 2-bit bunch of hackers trying to push a sub-par OS places where it is not supposed to go.

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