Respected Developers Begin Fleeing the App Store

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday November 19, 2009 @05:05AM from the also-known-as-the-french-rush dept.

wiedzmin writes "Facebook's Joe Hewitt, Second Gear's Justin Williams, the long-time Mac software developer known as 'Rogue Amoeba' and other respected App Store developers have recently decided to discontinue their work on the platform, citing their frustration with Apple's opaque approval process. Continued issues with erroneous and snap rejections of applications and APIs are prompting more and more developers to shun the platform entirely. Though there are tens of thousands of other developers who have pumped out over 100,000 apps for the platform, continued migration away from iPhone development will most likely result in lower quality software."

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Irony by Anonymous Coward · 2009-11-19 05:13 · Score: 5, Insightful

Note the irony of a FaceBook employee complainng about Apple's closed system.
Re:Joe Hewitt abandoned developers by StikyPad · 2009-11-19 05:34 · Score: 5, Insightful

Boss: How was your trip.
Reporter: Mostly uneventful, although I spotted Joe Biden on the Amtrak before he got off at the next stop.
Boss: "RESPECTED POLITICIANS BEGIN FLEEING MASS TRANSIT!"
Reporter: Uh, I don't think he was fleeing mass transit per se, nor did it seem to be the start of any trend...
Boss: He left, didn't he?
Reporter: ...also, I'm not sure he counts as "respected."

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