The Point

The point in all this anger, fear, incredulity and hopelessness directed towards Apple, on the part of the iPhone and iPod Touch developer community, as beautifully expressed by Jason Snell in an article over at Macworld (or, if you will, why you, as a “regular Joe” iPhone or iPod Touch user should care about what a bunch of coding monkey developers have to say):

Now you, as a user, may say something along these lines: Why does it matter to me? Maybe these developers are a bunch of spoiled brats, and they should just shut up and keep making money hand over fist from the App Store like those guys who wrote Trism.

If you don’t want to sympathize with developers, let me rephrase it to describe how this will affect users: If developers are afraid to write programs for the iPhone that aren’t games, to-do lists, and tip calculators, for fear that all their hard work will be wasted by a malicious or capricious Apple rejection notice, they will stop writing programs for the platform. And the well of innovative, interesting iPhone software will dry up.

Crystal clear on this end, Apple. Your move.

I can’t wait for Macworld.

25 September 2008 | View Comments |


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[...] makes a small but much needed step towards mending fences with the iPhone/iPod Touch developer community. Let’s hope the good news doesn’t stop [...]

Posted by Dan Markham - Progress on 1 October 2008 @ 10am

[...] I’ve posted about this previous to Apple dropping the NDA for iPhone/iPod Touch app development and, as I stated, there is still more that Apple needs to do to keep developers from eventually shying away from developing for the platform. There are many, I am sure, that agree. One of those is John Gruber: Here is a complete list of what Apple must do to increase developers’ trust in the App Store system: [...]

Posted by Dan Markham - Gripped by ‘The Fear’ on 2 October 2008 @ 6pm

[...] makes a small but much needed step towards mending fences with the iPhone/iPod Touch developer community. Let’s hope the good news doesn’t stop [...]

Posted by danmarkham.net - Progress on 11 December 2009 @ 9pm

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