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iPhone App In App Store Limbo Open Sourced
recoiledsnake writes "The author of iPhone prototyping tool Briefs has decided to open source it after the App store submission has been in limbo for over three months. The app had got into trouble for what Apple believes is being able to run interpreted code, though the author denies it, saying all the compiling happens on the Mac. While Rob stays civil, his co-worker blasts Apple for not even rejecting the app. Three months is nothing compared to Google Voice for the iPhone though, which is still being studied further by Apple after more than a year."
One would think he could easily cross to the dark side, and release his app in the Rock store, or the Cydia store.
In fact, I would be surprised if someone doesn't take the code, compile the app, and release it as a .deb anyways.
But using the Cydia store features the developer could still make quite a bit of money.
Sure, it limits your app to jailbroken devices, but that is a very large number of devices compared to zero as the current situation goes.
I'm sure he has his reasons and all, I am just curious what they might be.