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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.
I had to write an iPhone/iPod Touch app for work. The Objective-C programming language and the XCode IDE are probably the worst tools I've ever had to work with, with the exception of having to do apps in horrible JavaSwing once-upon-a-time. Actually the graphics programming is pretty decent but the Objective-C syntax is just retarded. Anyway, the draconian control Apple has over their platfrom should be alarming to all developers. Forcing what tools (and hardware) developers have to use, forcing developers to pay $100 a year just for the right to use the tools, and no guarantee you will ever be able to get your hard work on the App Store are all reasons to boycott the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad development. You say that the Google Android platform is no alternative? Only time will tell. I personally believe that the iPhone/iTouch/iPad market is only a temporary star for Apple. Eventually they will get knocked down by better products with better developer support and without all the draconian BS Apple forces on developers.
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It's their damned platform and they can be as pricky as they want.
No. That argument already commits a serious error. You own the phone. You get to decide what runs on it. Even if you want to argue that Apple decides the base platform, in this case (certainly not the first) they have reduced the functionality of a device you own.
This sort of thing will work itself out. Likely not to Apple's long-term benefit, IMHO.
Steve Jobs could rape a busload of nuns and his fans would point out that some consider habits as fetishwear and anyway, they should have flown instead of taking the bus.