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However, and probably due to Apple, the new Windows 8 tablets (and the Metro UI for all forms of Windows 8) will only run applications from their new Windows Store. So while they may not have before, Microsoft is certainly not immune from this trend.
Of course there is Windows desktop that does not have such limitations and a much broader distribution that any other platform.
I donated some cash because I feel bad, but I hope you've learnt your lesson: Do not base your entire livelyhood at the mercy of anybody but yourself, and especially not a huge corporation. This also goes for anybody who takes out a mortgage they can't afford. Don't ever get any debt or create any expenses you will no longer be able to pay if you got fired tomorrow.
"Do not base your entire livelyhood at the mercy of anybody but yourself, and especially not a huge corporation." This seems to apply to a vast, vast majority of the population... In our little tech/entrepreneur bubble, we're the exception, not the rule, in that we can generate income largely by ourselves.
Look, why to spend any time writing software that might be just killed overnight by a big faceless corporation? The same Apple Fan Boys who hate Adobe Flash because it is "closed" and not html5 "standard" as were told by their guru are at the very same time so heavily invested in Apple Corp closed eco-system that is just so much worse than anything that Adobe does.
I just don't get it.
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I can imagine a situation where a 20 dev shop gets closed because of something like this and they can't make payroll. There are lot of people here basing their company on an App in the app store. I'd be terrified.
Diversification really helps. Basing something on a single platform, particularly one that is so tighly controlled is suicidal.
This 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…
This isn't just an Apple problem. There's a disturbing trend here. All of the dominant internet companies exhibit this kind of nonsensical "evil" behavior: Google, eBay, Apple and Paypal, to name the most salient examples. Way back when, Microsoft was openly painted by Apple (and the Apple cult followers) as being evil. Interestingly enough, Microsoft never sought to have this kind of a death grip on its users, at le…
The painful difference is, where Microsoft actively aimed for the big game, leaving most smaller businesses to do as they please as long as they stayed small, the automated systems build to control rather than own the ecosystem (i.e. app stores) hurt everyone equally.
This leads to painful stories about big evil Apple/Google/eBay hurting the little guy. It sucks, it's a very worrying trend and I agree we should be pushing back.
But it's still nowhere near as "evil" as MS former dominance, when the options were a) build for Windows and get killed by MS if you become to big, or b)... Oh wait, there was no other option.
That's the thing I don't understand. Why some developers are so prone to the naive following the latest fashion... I mean really. Look, why to spend any time writing software that might be just killed overnight by a big faceless corporation? The same Apple Fan Boys who hate Adobe Flash because it is "closed" and not html5 "standard" as were told by their guru are at the very same time so heavily invested in Apple Cor…
I've read that, in order to get the #1 slot in "top grossing" for iOS apps, you need to be earning between $40k-$100k per day.
The publisher I'm working with has been sitting on an app that's been in the top 5 grossing for 5-6 months.
Follow the money...
That's the thing I don't understand. Why some developers are so prone to the naive following the latest fashion... I mean really. Look, why to spend any time writing software that might be just killed overnight by a big faceless corporation? The same Apple Fan Boys who hate Adobe Flash because it is "closed" and not html5 "standard" as were told by their guru are at the very same time so heavily invested in Apple Cor…
> I just don't get it. I've read that, in order to get the #1 slot in "top grossing" for iOS apps, you need to be earning between $40k-$100k per day. The publisher I'm working with has been sitting on an app that's been in the top 5 grossing for 5-6 months. Follow the money...
That's the thing I don't understand. Why some developers are so prone to the naive following the latest fashion... I mean really. Look, why to spend any time writing software that might be just killed overnight by a big faceless corporation? The same Apple Fan Boys who hate Adobe Flash because it is "closed" and not html5 "standard" as were told by their guru are at the very same time so heavily invested in Apple Cor…
Why isn't there a Developer Relations department at Apple to handle problems like this? Apple has made billions upon billions of dollars because developers have decided it was the best environment to make money and they put their weight behind iOS/Apple, yet somehow stuff like this drops through the cracks. I mean am I really going to feel safe quitting my job to make iOS/Mac apps if Apple can just cut off my revenue…
Actually, although lots of people seem to think Apple doesn't offer contact by phone, it does:
https://developer.apple.com/contact/phone.php
Having said that, presumably these were the very people not assisting the OP. I've never called them about an App Store issue, only about account issues (problems with bank details, changing from personal to company account etc.)