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Respected Developers Begin Fleeing the App Store

Posted by Soulskill on 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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  1. Re:They are all writing for Windows now... by ogdenk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If you can afford the Adobe CS suite, you can afford a mac. CS4 costs more than a Macbook. Oh, you mean you want to PIRATE CS4. Oh ok, carry on.

    Apple's newer $600 mini is actually a pretty sweet little machine. The $999 Macbook is no slouch either. Both have DDR3 RAM, a GeForce 9400M and Penryn C2D's on a 1066mhz FSB. More than adequate.

    Hell, Win7 running in a Parallels 5 VM w/ 1.5GB RAM and 1 core thrown at it gets significantly better "Winblows Experience" numbers (I know, a poor benchmark) than my daughters dual-core Athlon64-based Compaq F500 running Win7 natively w/ 2GB RAM.

    Compared to a TRULY EQUIVELANT PC, with the same components, Apple is actually cheaper. At least with the lower end. The higher-end Macbook Pros and the Mac Pro are a bit expensive though.