Richard Miller wrote:
Could you expand on the issue of non-standard GUI elements?... perhaps some examples of what is not acceptable?
Hard to say specifically beyond those I cited earlier. There seems to be a subjective element to the App Store review process, so the precise expectations a developer must comply with may not be knowable in advance, and conceivably may differ depending on the personality of the individual reviewer your app winds up with.
If self-updating is not allowed, what is the easiest alternative? Or is this app store going to operate like the iPad store, where the OS always informs the user when an update is available?
AFAIK, if you implement a bug fix or enhancement for your customers, the only way to make it available to them is to resubmit it to Apple's review queue and wait a few weeks for it to go through that process.
For those of us who strive to deliver bug fixes as close to instantly as possible, this is a disappointment for both ourselves and our customers.
I suppose the upside is that it encourages us to be more disciplined before release, to strive for the uncommon role of making one of the very few software products ever to exist that ships with zero bugs. ;)
If there's an alternate means by which we can shorten the time-to-delivery for our customers who use the App Store I'd be very glad to be wrong on this.
It's also unclear whether App Store presence is exclusive; that is, if you sell an app through the App Store can you also sell it at your own web site?
If so, that would provide a means of delivering timely updates without the unnecessary delay of waiting for a third-party bogged down by reviewing other apps that have nothing to do with your relationship with your customer.
If this sort of non-exclusivity is allowed, it then begs the question of whether the publisher is allowed to set their own price points which may differ from those in the App Store.
I can imagine more than a few developers who make strong products offering them at a lower price when purchased at their own store vs. the App Store, so that those who prefer the App Store shoulder the cost for that convenience while other customers aren't burdened by paying for that overhead when it doesn't benefit them.
Given the Sherman Act's wording about price fixing, I suspect Apple's solution to avoid this is to simply not allow an app sold through the App Store to be sold elsewhere.
But again, I would be very happy to be wrong on this. Anyone here know whether the App Store agreement is an exclusive one? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
