"Sam Cayze" <[email protected]> wrote on 05/18/2009 03:46:06 PM:
> The simple fact is that they are alienating the developer > community (for many reasons), and they are getting sick of it. Really? Have you looked at the Android app store? Or even the Blackberry app store? No comparison! > They can, and may, freely go elsewhere and develop. There are > many in the Apple Dev Community that are desperate to quit > writing for Apple and support the new WEB OS platform. Sure, but they aren't going to make money like they can on the Apple App store. I'm sure the remaining developers in the Apple App store will miss them :) And speaking of Web OS, that was iPhone 1.0 and Apple got loudly criticized for it. I find it amusing that now that it's Palm doing it (really, anyone other then Apple) the concept is suddenly the greatest thing since sliced bread. And ATT exclusivity is a fatal problem for the iPhone but Sprint exclusivity isn't a fatal problem for the Pre? People are funny... I guess time will tell, but most of the fussing is just that, fussing. Now, I do agree with those who criticize Apple for the inconsistency in their approval process. At almost a year into the process I would sincerely hope they would be further along, but I think they are past overwhelmed with developer response to the iPhone. As others have pointed out, it looks like they are taking steps (like parental controls) to address some of the current issues. This is where Apples traditional secrecy drives me crazy - at least give people a heads up that you not only acknowledge the issue but have a solution coming for it. Oh well.... Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government "The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it." - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
