It seems to me that a widget app, if popular, would become a new target for 3rd party applications, and I can't see why Apple would want that.
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#12I don't see how I can responsibly spend effort on developing an iPad app. The "approval" process is chaotic and arbitrary - witness intelligent cooperative people having their whole business shot down seemingly at random. I will develop for other platforms - the market leader Android for instance - which operate on the oldfashioned principle of "free market".
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#13Does apple not see how this will end up badly for them?
Apple, you're scaring off talented developers; soon the only people who will be left are people who can afford to have gobs and gobs of apps rejected.
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#14It seems to me that a widget app, if popular, would become a new target for 3rd party applications, and I can't see why Apple would want that.
Doesn't seem like a widget app to me. More like a picture frame with lots of features. Where is there a 3rd party widget feature?
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True. But do you think Jobs took the time to look into this, or just read the review comments from review process?
Does it matter? Either way, the result is the same. If he's not setting the policy, he's explicitly supporting it.
Seems like he's supporting idiots who don't think things through. Why not approve this app and warn him he's getting awfully desktop-ish?
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#16Does apple not see how this will end up badly for them? Apple, you're scaring off talented developers; soon the only people who will be left are people who can afford to have gobs and gobs of apps rejected.
Mindshare is The foundation. Apple squanders it. Google gets this part right.
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#17Does apple not see how this will end up badly for them? Apple, you're scaring off talented developers; soon the only people who will be left are people who can afford to have gobs and gobs of apps rejected.
I don't think these types of stories are scaring off anybody since we've been reading about App Store rejections for the last two years and it seems that companies and developers continue to want to make apps for iPad/iPod/iPhone.
It sounds to me like these developers didn't read the app store guidelines. Don't make apps that do what Apple devices can already do natively. They made an app that was too much like a desktop and got rejected. That seems entirely reasonable.
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#18Does apple not see how this will end up badly for them? Apple, you're scaring off talented developers; soon the only people who will be left are people who can afford to have gobs and gobs of apps rejected.
Apple's thesis is that supply-side economics don't work. Get a ton of buyers in one place, and the supply will work itself out.
We'll see how it ends up.
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#19Does apple not see how this will end up badly for them? Apple, you're scaring off talented developers; soon the only people who will be left are people who can afford to have gobs and gobs of apps rejected.
Mindshare is The foundation. Apple squanders it. Google gets this part right.
There are lots of complaints about how Android version incompatibilities makes it a pain for developers. The iPhone is a joy to program for, but the app store policy sucks. Android is a bitch to program for, but the app story policy is great.
I'd say they're about neck and neck.
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