Note that if you donate money to this guy, you're indirectly encouraging apple's behaviour.
Save My House From Apple
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#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
Half of the reason Netscape and Borland died was because of their own mistakes. The other half was that Microsoft had competing products and proceeded to crush them. If Microsoft had taken graphics editing more seriously by creating a Photoshop competitor bundled with Office or built Silverlight 5 years earlier than they did instead of bundling Flash into Windows, Adobe's story would have been very different.
On how many products can a single company work on? If Microsoft focused on a Photoshop clone, that focus would have been lost from somewhere else, just how they moved the engineers that worked on IExplorer to Silverlight. It's as simple as that. Even if a company is one of the biggest and wealthiest in the world, development still takes time and resources. Which is why hypothetical questions like what would have happ…
"If Microsoft focused on a Photoshop clone, that focus would have been lost from somewhere else"
huh?
So all that time they were working on silverlight, there was no one working on xbox. or office. or ie. or windows vista/7/xp-patches. or sharepoint. or asp.net. or sql server. or iis. or c#. or linq. or ford sync tech. or metro. or windows phone 7.
Please...
had they wanted to get in to the photoshop realm, they would have.
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#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
As someone making a living from an App Store (though not Apples one), 14 days are enough to turn your emergency alarms. You need to know that 1- You get paid a month later. (and apparently, he is not going to for January) 2- If that's your dependable income, you'll need 3-4 months until you find a job or figure out a different revenue stream. So if he is not getting paid for January, that's already 2 months of non-pa…
This site is good because it pokes Apple into action. However this seems like a temporary problem. It was pulled because of a problem on Apples end. There are a lot of companies who want an app in the app store or help with something. Its not difficult to find a temp job for a couple of weeks to tide you over. Obviously it isn't ideal but you do what you have to do to keep going. If your revenue stream dries up you c…
Its horrible BUT it brings in that little bit of money to keep the lights on until more work comes in.
I agree on it's horrible, but I don't agree that it brings money. You are very likely to land a $500 job that takes over 80 or 100 hours of work, and the buyer may end up rating you badly or not paying you.
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ah, so I'm guessing you understand this guy's situation entirely, allowing you to comment on his personal finances without sounding like a jackass. Otherwise, you wouldn't have posted, right?
It seems like a jerky thing to say. However, by the looks of things, OP had a couple of years to save up for a rainy day. I'm willing to grant that apple is horrible, evil, son of the devil, voted for Palin, whatever. but really, is this any worse than a car accident or a heart attack?
"is this any worse than a car accident or a heart attack?"
In some ways yes. We generally have car and medical insurance to help with the financial side of catastrophic events. There is no 'software dev' insurance to help mitigate things if someone doesn't pay you or reneges on their contract. You have to bear all the costs of legal and administrative costs in chasing down the other party.
Perhaps some dev insurance program would be able to bear up to $x legal cost in exchange for y% of your burden.
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#95AppStore is not the only way to sell the software. And I don't get why instead of asking for donation he didn't put a "buy button" right there, on the story page? I'd rather buy his stuff than simply donate him money. This way it would be better for both of us. Instead he asks for money "for free" and does not provide a direct link to buy his app. This looks really strange.
I'm thinking the same thing. There many, many sites that sell their own software. Just set up a paypal, google or whatever account and sell it. Don't just beg for money because your vendor is shitty. Perhaps this developer just didn't think this through and posted in a rage. Almost sounded like another Nigerian banking scam. Hopefully they figure out a better plan for the future. Apple's store is just one option, though an easy one.
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#96I think stuff like this is one of the reasons that there aren't many serious big ticket apps on the store (at ones that aren't also available elsewhere).
If I were to develop for iPhone there is no way I would invest serious R&D time and money into something with the risk that this could happen. More likely I'd just build a bunch of $1-5 apps and have them suddenly flatlining either because of this or user apathy factored into my plans.
I wouldn't trust the arbitrary mercies of any large corporation to put food on my (hypothetical) kid's table.
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
But it's still nowhere near as "evil" as MS former dominance This argument comes up a lot but I just don't see it. In regards to the death of such companies like Netscape or Borland, you cannot put the blame on Microsoft's evilness. Sorry but you cannot. These companies completely fucked up their products. If they kept working and improving instead of fucking up their products, Borland would still sell developer tool…
Half of the reason Netscape and Borland died was because of their own mistakes. The other half was that Microsoft had competing products and proceeded to crush them. If Microsoft had taken graphics editing more seriously by creating a Photoshop competitor bundled with Office or built Silverlight 5 years earlier than they did instead of bundling Flash into Windows, Adobe's story would have been very different.
Adobe's big cash cow is Photoshop. Photoshop users are traditionally Mac loyalists, I doubt many of them would have given any MS offering the time of day.
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
further, if Apple has an issue, why does begging for donations become his first option? If he's a freelancer, can't he get a short term gig? Or a short term job? Seems a bit weak...
Can he not setup a another developer account, and submit the app again?
That would most likely be a violation of their ToS and would give Apple a real reason to ban him.
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#99What bothers me is the apparent lack of accountability. Apple pulls an app off the app store any time under rules so complicated and vague this power becomes completely discretionary. Or does it by mistake. I'd like to see the process Apple uses to ensure a rogue censor will not remove an app from the store because they don't like it, its publisher or got paid by a competitor.
The worst part is that Apple isn't even the worst offender around.
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#100You are using Paypal for donations. There have been many horror stories on HN about people doing a donation drive and getting accounts closed by Paypal citing ToS.
But isn't he 'selling' something (software) in return for those 'donations'?
From what happened to a game developer in the past (can't remember the name, it was some isometric zombie game), even though the dev was "selling" the game, the button said "donate" and he wasn't a non-profit, so all the money got frozen.
Actually thinking about it, that may have been Google Checkout, but the point still remains.