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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Re:Thank God I own a Blackberry by jcr · 2009-11-19 05:55 · Score: 0, Troll

I can purchase whatever apps I want from whomever I want.
Sure! Dozens of them.
-jcr

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The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Re:Apps are allowed to integrate by pwfffff · 2009-11-19 08:27 · Score: 1, Troll

He didn't say 'not technically possible'. He said 'not allowed'. Your solution is like telling the teacher 'but I DIDN'T touch the cake' when you simply used a fork to shove it in your face.
If Apple's terms say that apps aren't allowed to communicate (which AFAIK they don't; I'm just going on what he said -- 'not allowed'), then how can you be sure that your clever system of URL handling isn't going to be rejected anyways?