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Apple Blindsides More AppStore Developers
For a while now Apple has said it doesn't want "widget-like" apps in the store; but where is the boundary of that fuzzy statement? The developers of My Frame, of which three versions had already been approved for the iPhone/iPad, found out that they had already crossed it when Apple informed them their app would be pulled. My Frame had options to overlay data on whatever photo was displaying: a Twitter stream, weather, etc. When one of the developers wrote to Steve Jobs on a whim to ask what unwritten rule their app had violated, Jobs wrote back: "We are not allowing apps that create their own desktops. Sorry." "I see now why people are so angry at the 'murky' nature of the App Store, and I'm starting to agree with them. My Frame was approved by Apple 3 times (once for each version we released), and ... now, at version 1.2 they decide it's to be removed? How can a company be prepared to invest into a platform that can change at any time, cutting you off and kicking you out, with no course of action but to whine on some no-name blog[?] There is no alternative platform, despite what others may say about Android, it's immature and their app store(s) are a wild west nightmare. It really is Apple's way or the highway...." A few blogs have picked up the story.
Either accept what Apple calls the shots on what can run on the iPhone you or go develop for another phone/platform. Steve is in charge of Apple, and he says what goes. You knew that going in.
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Microsoft has been pulling that kind of shit for ages, except they have been much more subtle about it. I only point that out because you monkeys are so addicted to their crack that you will tolerate it. Another way to put it; What the hell has taken you so long to realize Apple does not give a shit about your app, or the others not written by them? That fuzzy line is there so they can toss those apps that are indirect conflict with theirs or those they have coming down the pipe.
My karma is not a Chameleon.
I wish there was a 'bring to the attention of the slashmods' button.. but yeah, it looks like Apple is acting a lot worse than Microsoft ever did.
Puleeze. When Apple has congress critters from their home state on TV explaining that monopolies are good for the trade deficit, then pinch me. Apple is micromanaging their products, sure, and it sucks. But do not confuse this with the marginally criminal acts that Microsoft has gotten away with throughout the years.
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This is the root of the problem:
> There is no alternative platform, despite what others may say about Android, it's immature
> and their app store(s) are a wild west nightmare. It really is Apple's way or the highway...."
Thousands of apps already in the Android store but for too many koolaid drinkers this kind of thinking still persists. No, the Android world will never be as neat and tidy as Steve's closed hell. Freedom is messy, either suck it up and deal with that reality or put yer damned chains on and stop bitching when they bind. In the end you have to make a decision. If Freedom worth the price or isn't it? Because it isn't free and Steve's fascist dictatorship is oh so shiny and the trains all run on time.
Stop developing for the App Store and it either dies or changes to attract developers back, just that simple. Even if he looked stupid doing the monkey dance, Balmer was right that it is all about "Developers, Develops, Developers!" However if the developers are supine and just sit and take whatever Jobs dishes out and yells "Thank you Sir, May I have another!" you really can't get upset about being abused.
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> Our website contained a contest
Sounds like iCrapware to me. Try writing and publishing something that doesn't stench like a late night infomercial.
I too have an iPad App. It was available April 1st with all the other Day One iPad Apps. It was "In the Spotlight" for all of April and "New and Noteworthy" for most of May. If I can, you can too.
How about: It's Apple's store.