Apple’s WWDC-Closing ‘Fuck You’ to iPhone Developers
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Apple’s WWDC-Closing ‘Fuck You’ to iPhone Developers
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#2The iPhone is a terrible platform for the vast, vast majority of developers. The process of getting on board, promotion, and success is a total black hole. First movers such as ngmoco and Tapulous have done well; people with better apps - for free - have failed. Maaaaaaaybe 3.0 makes it easier for niche plays to work; certainly, as far as I can tell, add-on payments aren't supported in Palm's marketplace. I do think the Apple folks are improving the platform. But they act like jerks.
Apple can fuck over iPhone devs, and they do. Frankly, it's what you would expect from them. An abuser doesn't stop beating when you confront him; he stops beating you when you leave.
Re: Apple’s WWDC-Closing ‘Fuck You’ to iPhone Developers
#3Isn't making an NDA for a conference talk about publishing to the app store quite a big fat fuck you too?
Seriously, how much more of this Apple-flagellation are you peeps gonna accept?!?? (Yes _flagellation_.)
Re: Apple’s WWDC-Closing ‘Fuck You’ to iPhone Developers
#4That wasn't a middle finger, it was fear.
Re: Apple’s WWDC-Closing ‘Fuck You’ to iPhone Developers
#5Isn't making an NDA for a conference talk about publishing to the app store quite a big fat fuck you too? Seriously, how much more of this Apple-flagellation are you peeps gonna accept?!?? (Yes _flagellation_.)
People will accept it while the market exists.
The alternatives simply do not have the consumer mindshare that the iPhone does, which is unfortunate.
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#6I have no objection to Apple running an official App Store with strict rules for compliance. I don't even mind that they take a cut of the profits.
However, I find it utterly reprehensible that Apple doesn't allow developers to distribute their applications on their own. iPhone owners should be able to install whatever they want on the device they purchased.
Re: Apple’s WWDC-Closing ‘Fuck You’ to iPhone Developers
#7Isn't making an NDA for a conference talk about publishing to the app store quite a big fat fuck you too? Seriously, how much more of this Apple-flagellation are you peeps gonna accept?!?? (Yes _flagellation_.)
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Re: Apple’s WWDC-Closing ‘Fuck You’ to iPhone Developers
#8I have no objection to Apple running an official App Store with strict rules for compliance. I don't even mind that they take a cut of the profits. However, I find it utterly reprehensible that Apple doesn't allow developers to distribute their applications on their own. iPhone owners should be able to install whatever they want on the device they purchased.
iPhone owners should be able to install whatever they want on the device they purchased.
Why? It's such an entrenched idea, but you don't get to rewrite paragraphs of books, or scenes in films, or suits in a pack of playing cards or the firmware in your alarm clock. The iPhone is sold as is, why should we expect to use it any differently?
Re: Apple’s WWDC-Closing ‘Fuck You’ to iPhone Developers
#9Isn't making an NDA for a conference talk about publishing to the app store quite a big fat fuck you too? Seriously, how much more of this Apple-flagellation are you peeps gonna accept?!?? (Yes _flagellation_.)
I think most (if not all) talks at WWDC are covered by NDA, and have been in recent memory. It's just Apple's style.
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#10"The content of sessions is under NDA, so I can’t tell you what it was about."
Without knowing the content, I'm reluctant to criticize the decision not to take questions since I remember one WWDC session where one developer (let's call him "dw") destroyed an AppleScript session with his Q&A ranting.