"I don't own and don't plan to own any Android devices, because frankly I think it sucks." --jwz Oh, the deep irony.
Where's the irony?
JWZ ported XScreenSaver to iOS - keeps getting rejected by Apple
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Re: JWZ ported XScreenSaver to iOS - keeps getting rejected by Apple
#22It is named ScreenSaver, when it clearly does not function as "screen saver" on iOS device. Apple is right.
Hacker News is not "hacker news".
Re: JWZ ported XScreenSaver to iOS - keeps getting rejected by Apple
#23The way I see it: one less junk app off the App Store. Thumbs up, Apple!
Re: JWZ ported XScreenSaver to iOS - keeps getting rejected by Apple
#24Apple might be wrong, but jwz is a dick. Just read the comments on that link and see how abusive he is to the other commenters.
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Re: JWZ ported XScreenSaver to iOS - keeps getting rejected by Apple
#25Apple might be wrong, but jwz is a dick. Just read the comments on that link and see how abusive he is to the other commenters.
Jamie lives a hard life.
Re: JWZ ported XScreenSaver to iOS - keeps getting rejected by Apple
#26Does it even matter whether Apple is wrong, unreasonable or irrational? Just like I reserve the rights of admission to my house, Apple reserves the right to accept or reject applications from the app store. If you really want Apple to change, how about NOT developing for iOS? Articles like this aren't really going to make them change their policies.
If you really want Apple to change, how about NOT developing for iOS? Articles like this aren't really going to make them change their policies.
Certainly convincing other people not to develop for iOS would have more of an impact than just swearing off it personally. More generally, I dislike the idea that we shouldn't write this sort of thing because "the market will sort it out anyway". This sort of post is the market sorting it out.
Apple reserves the right to accept or reject applications from the app store.
Sure, they're probably legally entitled to do almost anything. That doesn't mean they can't (or shouldn't) be criticised for it, though, and it doesn't mean that criticism of them can't have any impact on anyone's behaviour.
Re: JWZ ported XScreenSaver to iOS - keeps getting rejected by Apple
#27Does it even matter whether Apple is wrong, unreasonable or irrational? Just like I reserve the rights of admission to my house, Apple reserves the right to accept or reject applications from the app store. If you really want Apple to change, how about NOT developing for iOS? Articles like this aren't really going to make them change their policies.
It's more like the guy who built your house and sold it to you reserving the right to decide who can come into it.
Re: JWZ ported XScreenSaver to iOS - keeps getting rejected by Apple
#28"I don't own and don't plan to own any Android devices, because frankly I think it sucks." --jwz Oh, the deep irony.
Where's the irony?
When he said Android sucks he presumably evaluated a number of attributes of both iOS and Android and concluded that iOS outperforms Android in those he cares about.
He's now finding out the hard way that "openness" may have been an attribute the importance of which he underestimated.
And just like the tens of other iOS developers that came to whine here when the same happened to them: you knew what you were getting into and chose to ignore it at your own peril.
Re: JWZ ported XScreenSaver to iOS - keeps getting rejected by Apple
#29Does it even matter whether Apple is wrong, unreasonable or irrational? Just like I reserve the rights of admission to my house, Apple reserves the right to accept or reject applications from the app store. If you really want Apple to change, how about NOT developing for iOS? Articles like this aren't really going to make them change their policies.
If you really want Apple to change, how about NOT developing for iOS? Articles like this aren't really going to make them change their policies. Certainly convincing other people not to develop for iOS would have more of an impact than just swearing off it personally. More generally, I dislike the idea that we shouldn't write this sort of thing because "the market will sort it out anyway". This sort of post is the ma…
I agree wholeheartedly with you. However, there is no shortage of articles detailing Apple's arbitrary App store approval process. Yet, the number of applications on the App store keeps on increasing and increasing.
What is striking is none (or I haven't come across one) of these articles end with the developer washing their hands off the App store and vowing never to develop another iOS app. Instead, most of them seem to be aiming to generate publicity so that Apple takes notice and hopefully approves the app.