I feel sorry for his family, but rely exclusively in apple store, or whatever store, is insane. Actually, the all idea of stores is, IMHO, a bad idea, because who control the app's relevance is not the user, and this is very wrong in a market. My 2 cents.
Save My House From Apple
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Re: Save My House From Apple
#102This is the same Apple that plans for GateKeeper to check a certificate server for blacklisted apps and developers in OS X 10.8. Imagine not even being in the App Store and your app's mainstream customers with default settings seeing a scary warning message because your certificate was accidentally blacklisted. Coming to the HN front page later this year..? :-) Orienting your business around the ecosystem of a corpor…
"Coming to the HN front page later this year..?" I assume this may be a theme in the making.. I wonder if App Store like ecosystems have similar issues. I havnt heared of any in the android market, but im sure similar cases can be found.
android market may be a little freer but I wouldn't personally put all my eggs in that basket either.
People are a little wary of downloading from android store because of the scaremongering over viruses etc.
Also there are many people who seem to give bad reviews on android store with little justification.
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
That looks like the same guy?
This seems shady to me. I have apps on the iOS store as well (just like many of you) so I am aware of the emails you get from Apple telling you that your Apple developer account is going to expire. I have never heard of another developer having a problem with renewing their credentials. If there was an actual bug, I don't doubt more developers would be affected. Honestly, I bet he forgot to renew, his apps got pulled…
Maybe not.
In the comments someone mentions a similar situation that resolved when his original account expired.
Re: Save My House From Apple
#104AppStore is not the only way to sell the software. And I don't get why instead of asking for donation he didn't put a "buy button" right there, on the story page? I'd rather buy his stuff than simply donate him money. This way it would be better for both of us. Instead he asks for money "for free" and does not provide a direct link to buy his app. This looks really strange.
"Everyone who donates will receive a free copy of my video game (2299 : THE GAME) and my visual app development tool (Illumination Software Creator). Both run on Linux, Windows and Mac. I'll also throw in the first two issues of my comic book (Road-Sign Hank)."
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd like to hear more details before a poll would be meaningful. With that kind of money owing, wouldn't legal action be a reasonable option by now?
Legal action from an independent dev against Apple is like challenging an aircraft carrier with a golf club.
See the recent case of the woman who won against Honda in small claims court for advertising inaccurate mileage: http://www.thedetroitbureau.com/2012/02/woman-wins-honda-hyb...
Of course, Honda plans to appeal, so...
Re: Save My House From Apple
#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
But it's still nowhere near as "evil" as MS former dominance This argument comes up a lot but I just don't see it. In regards to the death of such companies like Netscape or Borland, you cannot put the blame on Microsoft's evilness. Sorry but you cannot. These companies completely fucked up their products. If they kept working and improving instead of fucking up their products, Borland would still sell developer tool…
Yes, there seems to be some disconnect between Microsft killing off competition and said competition simply being worse. Not to say that there weren't smaller companies with good products that were pushed out by some intentional decisions on Microsoft's part, but the headline examples always rung a bit hollow for me. IE > Netscape Visual Studio > anything by Borland Excel > Lotus Word > Wordperfect
People forget, because it's seen as "hip" to hate on it now, but when IE6 was released, it really was a better browser than the competition.
What killed Netscape was that version 3.0 of their server products were terrible. At the time I was working for a company that had spent millions on version 2. It was easier to jump platforms than to try to get 3 stable for us...
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
Half of the reason Netscape and Borland died was because of their own mistakes. The other half was that Microsoft had competing products and proceeded to crush them. If Microsoft had taken graphics editing more seriously by creating a Photoshop competitor bundled with Office or built Silverlight 5 years earlier than they did instead of bundling Flash into Windows, Adobe's story would have been very different.
Adobe's big cash cow is Photoshop. Photoshop users are traditionally Mac loyalists, I doubt many of them would have given any MS offering the time of day.
Photoshop users use Mac because it works the best for what they're doing. If they could have had the same solution vastly cheaper and 80-90% as good you think they'd have been willing to pay thousands more for that 10-20%?
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
But it's still nowhere near as "evil" as MS former dominance This argument comes up a lot but I just don't see it. In regards to the death of such companies like Netscape or Borland, you cannot put the blame on Microsoft's evilness. Sorry but you cannot. These companies completely fucked up their products. If they kept working and improving instead of fucking up their products, Borland would still sell developer tool…
Yes, there seems to be some disconnect between Microsft killing off competition and said competition simply being worse. Not to say that there weren't smaller companies with good products that were pushed out by some intentional decisions on Microsoft's part, but the headline examples always rung a bit hollow for me. IE > Netscape Visual Studio > anything by Borland Excel > Lotus Word > Wordperfect
What? No. Borland was vastly superior to Visual Studio. Today Visual Studio is the best IDE in existence, but in the Borland days creating a GUI was much, much easier in Borland.
Re: Save My House From Apple
#109Could these posts get anymore personal? A picture of your child? Save my house? I think it's great that you're supporting yourself doing this, but if you don't have a safety buffer than you're putting yourself at risk.
Re: Save My House From Apple
#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, there seems to be some disconnect between Microsft killing off competition and said competition simply being worse. Not to say that there weren't smaller companies with good products that were pushed out by some intentional decisions on Microsoft's part, but the headline examples always rung a bit hollow for me. IE > Netscape Visual Studio > anything by Borland Excel > Lotus Word > Wordperfect
People forget, because it's seen as "hip" to hate on it now, but when IE6 was released, it really was a better browser than the competition. What killed Netscape was that version 3.0 of their server products were terrible. At the time I was working for a company that had spent millions on version 2. It was easier to jump platforms than to try to get 3 stable for us...
Dude, people don't hate IE6 because it's hip, we hate it because it has wasted hours and hours and hours of time for each and every one of us who design for the web, and the websites you use are worse as a result.
Maybe IE6 was better than the competition in 2001, but it was also terribly buggy and non-standards-compliant, encouraged developers to include Windows-only components that made it impossible for users to change browsers or even upgrade, and then wasn't upgraded for 5 years. Five years. And they did it that way not by accident or incompetence, but because they knew before anyone else that the web was a competitor, and they wanted to screw it up as much as possible.
Hate hate hate IE6 and be proud of it. Microsoft has a lot of karma to make up.