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Apple In Trouble With Developers
geek writes "According to Marco Arment, the creator of Instapaper, Apple may be in trouble with developers. According to Arment, the new sandboxing guidelines from Apple are pushing developers away in droves. 'I've lost all confidence that the apps I buy in the App Store today will still be there next month or next year. The advantages of buying from the App Store are mostly gone now. My confidence in the App Store, as a customer, has evaporated. Next time I buy an app that’s available both in and out of the Store, I’ll probably choose to buy it directly from the vendor. And nearly everyone who’s been burned by sandboxing exclusions — not just the affected apps’ developers, but all of their customers — will make the same choice with their future purchases. To most of these customers, the App Store is no longer a reliable place to buy software.' Arment also comments on the 'our way or the highway' attitude Apple often takes in these situations and how it may be backfiring this time around."
Android? Greener Pastures? If you mean you'd rather code for Android users who would rather spend a week figuring out how to break and hack things to get around paying that exorbitant $0.99 for your app is preferable to coding for iOS and actually get that $0.70 from each App purchase.
Funny how Linux users think everyone should work for free because they don't want to pay for shit.
Of course this attitude has no bearing on why Linux fails to attract successful commercial products to it's OS
and why Android is losing developers due to rampant piracy.
For those that don't remember the 80s...
This is what apple does. They create a market. They hype it to the point that they have a rabid consumer base that has no clue what's really going on. Then they change the rules and jack up the price to rake in the profit. Is there really any reason anyone would ever chose an apple device based on its technical merits?
And this post sounds like a butthurt developer who can no longer run rampant outside of his sandbox. He isn't forced to use the app store. He never was.
The linked article cites no sources, shows no vast number of developers leaving, yet everyone is eating it up like candy.
It means he can no longer just scan whatever files, contact, personal info, etc.
Some apps will no longer be viable in the App Store if they perform functions that require that deep level of access.
The vast majority won't be affected at all.
*yawn* Yes, I made a spelling mistake. OMG let's alert the New York Times! You knew exactly what I meant.