The Removal of AirFloat and AirFoil [from the iOS App Store]
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The Removal of AirFloat and AirFoil [from the iOS App Store]
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Re: The Removal of AirFloat and AirFoil [from the iOS App Store]
#2I wonder at what point the removal of good and innovative apps will piss enough iOS developers off that no new good apps will get created...
Re: The Removal of AirFloat and AirFoil [from the iOS App Store]
#3I wonder at what point the removal of good and innovative apps will piss enough iOS developers off that no new good apps will get created...
They'd have to get fed up enough to move to a non-Apple ecosystem, and given how much the typical iOS/Mac dev loves Apple products, that seems unlikely unless a new player storms onto the market and finally delivers serious competition. Abuse like this will, at most, just make devs grumble more about how unkind Apple is; they're not going to stop making Apple rich anytime soon.
Re: The Removal of AirFloat and AirFoil [from the iOS App Store]
#4Apple develops a technology called Airplay that it licenses to 3rd parties. Developers reverse-engineer the technology and sell apps that circumvent Apple's licensing model. Apple removes those apps from their store.
I am not the least bit surprised.
Re: The Removal of AirFloat and AirFoil [from the iOS App Store]
#5I wonder at what point the removal of good and innovative apps will piss enough iOS developers off that no new good apps will get created...
Never.
The alternatives are nowhere near as lucrative.
Re: The Removal of AirFloat and AirFoil [from the iOS App Store]
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Re: The Removal of AirFloat and AirFoil [from the iOS App Store]
#7I wonder at what point the removal of good and innovative apps will piss enough iOS developers off that no new good apps will get created...
Judging from the Photoshop thread (1). People has a lot of tolerance to abuse, and will allow themselves to obvious mistreatment for many years before finally figuring they deserve better, and giving up.
Re: The Removal of AirFloat and AirFoil [from the iOS App Store]
#8It's what happens when you let MBAs and lawyers make the decisions engineers should be making.
Re: The Removal of AirFloat and AirFoil [from the iOS App Store]
#9All was working out great, and in the first month I had 100 downloads and the reception was phenomenal. Only five star reviews on App Store.
Is that a typo? Really only 100 downloads? If that's true then the app store is even more of a crapshoot than I thought.
Re: The Removal of AirFloat and AirFoil [from the iOS App Store]
#10I wonder at what point the removal of good and innovative apps will piss enough iOS developers off that no new good apps will get created...
It's much less of an issue for the average developer than the fact that it's getting to be very, very hard to make any real money in the app store.
To quote from the article:
I really believe that the App Store is become more and more like an Android market – meaning 99% crap!