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Facebook iPhone Dev Quits Project Over Apple Tyranny

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Re: Facebook iPhone Dev Quits Project Over Apple Tyranny

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Post by kyro »

madair wrote: post #9
naz wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Collecting intimate personal details and selling it to advertisers is less ominous than screening apps to ensure quality?

I thought they shut down that program recently?

You're talking about Beacon, which would gather data about what you're doing on other sites.

Re: Facebook iPhone Dev Quits Project Over Apple Tyranny

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Post by bkbleikamp »

wmeredith wrote: post #5

This is really too bad. I use Facebook via the iPhone app more than the web interface. I can't wait to see what he does next.

The iPhone app is continuing, if it sucks he can always walk over to the desk of whoever is working on it and tell them why it sucks :)

Re: Facebook iPhone Dev Quits Project Over Apple Tyranny

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Post by unalone »

naz wrote: post #8
madair wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ummm, Facebook's wall is quite a bit less ominous than Apple's. You may want to return that irony to the store, they cheated you and watered it down.

Collecting intimate personal details and selling it to advertisers is less ominous than screening apps to ensure quality?

From a developer standpoint, immensely so.

Re: Facebook iPhone Dev Quits Project Over Apple Tyranny

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Post by evgen »

madair wrote: post #6
evgen wrote: post #3

I find the irony of a developer working for one of the biggest walled gardens on the internet complaining about walls around someone else's garden to be very deep into the pot/kettle/black territory...

Ummm, Facebook's wall is quite a bit less ominous than Apple's. You may want to return that irony to the store, they cheated you and watered it down.

The walls are still there. Facebook is still a roach motel for data and now they are going to be spanking platform developers whose apps are proving to be detrimental to Facebook's reputation and user experience. Same tune, different band.

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Post by grinich »

nolanbrown23 wrote: post #2

He's also the developer behind the three20 project which Apple has recently been rejecting apps using three20 because it was supposedly using private APIs. I can see how that can be frustrating to put in all that work in to develop a very valuable and powerful library and with the flick of a switch Apple makes your work almost useless.

Here his announcement to the Three20 Google Group.

http://groups.google.com/group/three20/msg/9ab6b6345775dc45

Re: Facebook iPhone Dev Quits Project Over Apple Tyranny

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Post by madair »

evgen wrote: post #16
madair wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ummm, Facebook's wall is quite a bit less ominous than Apple's. You may want to return that irony to the store, they cheated you and watered it down.

The walls are still there. Facebook is still a roach motel for data and now they are going to be spanking platform developers whose apps are proving to be detrimental to Facebook's reputation and user experience. Same tune, different band.

What is implied by a roach motel for data?

I hate walled gardens. But I really don't think they are objectively the same tune different band. You're saying they will be spanking platform devs who's apps prove detrimental...well that's pretty different from Apple. Hugely different. Hmmm, hardly in the same class.

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Re: Facebook iPhone Dev Quits Project Over Apple Tyranny

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Post by madair »

naz wrote: post #8
madair wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ummm, Facebook's wall is quite a bit less ominous than Apple's. You may want to return that irony to the store, they cheated you and watered it down.

Collecting intimate personal details and selling it to advertisers is less ominous than screening apps to ensure quality?

For that the key is the privacy controls. We can argue about whether Facebook's privacy controls are good enough, whether they are selling our data, and so on. But that's got nothing to do with the Apple walled-garden comparison.

I can write a FB app and have it up in a jiffy, that's just not the case with Apple. And I will be so very very surprised if Facebook censors a dictionary app.

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