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.

Comments

hsd

[Anonymous Coward]

Can the editors at least TRY to proofread the summaries? Geeze...

"My Frame hsd options..."

[uofitorn]

A portmanteau of has and had?

Re:"My Frame hsd options..."

[biryokumaru]

More like a malamanteau.

Re:Sounds familiar

[oldspewey]

unlike second life there are competitors and other opportunities.

I recently heard about a competitor to Second Life. Details are scarce but I understand it involves some things called "sunshine" and "other humans."

I'll post further details as they become available.