Apple’s rejection of the Podcaster app for duping “the functionality of the Podcast section of iTunes” was a more dramatic blow to developers than we implied in our coverage, throwing the capriciousness of the approval process into the starkest relief yet, especially from the dev standpoint. Joy of Tech, thankfully, gives us some insight into Apple’s innovation-killing process for the first time. Also check out John Gruber’s argument about what’s so wrong here. See also: NYT’s coverage. [Joy of Tech]
Jason
Thursday, September 18, 2008 at 10:49 AMI completely support the caution Apple shows in avoiding third party apps that may take away from the efficiency of original Apple apps.. They should not open the doors to people who think they are recreating an already efficient app, just as Microsoft gravely allowed unscrutinized third party apps.
David Gerard
Sunday, September 21, 2008 at 9:04 AMSeriously, Microsoft is really losing it in the evil stakes these days. They used to be really good at evil. Now Apple is kicking their backsides for evil. When Steve Jobs goes “MuWAAAhahahaha!”, the brainwashed minions listen. His henchmen are really loyal, not just getting paid to be. Poor Ballmer.
Kim
Monday, October 27, 2008 at 3:40 AMYou really want Apple to sell illegal apps?
(Copyright violations, AT&T contract violations)
You really want Apple to sell useless apps?
($1000 apps that do nothing)
You really want Apple to sell obscene apps?
(Pointless farting apps)
You really want Apple to see duplicate apps?
(20 different apps that all do about the same thing)
Or do you want inventive, creative, high quality, new, original, useful software?