This time, he stops by the blog of Steven Frank of Panic (maker of the excellent FTP client Transmit), who said he was ditching the iPhone because of the “toxic” ecosystem.
Steven didn’t republish Phil’s letter, but he says it was a “courteous, polite, and reassuring email,” the gist of which was “we hear you.” Lovely.
It’s great that Apple hears the grumbling—now they just need to actually do something about it. Admittedly, that’s no small task, since the entire App Store model is on the verge of shattering completely. [Steven F via Mac Rumors]
Shane
Thursday, August 13, 2009 at 7:45 AMThe app store concept is a great idea, a great way of finding apps for the iphone and itouch…it’s a shame though, if you only want to distribute the app to a small number you need to jump though hoops.
If I recall, you can distribute to < 100 people on the standard developer agreement and if you want to privatly distribute to 500 or more, you need to have a business developers agreement…
Neither fit the model I need and my app ideas don’t belong on the app store…
I have no issue with submitting my app to apple to have it “signed” so that users know, if the bother to read the agreements, that it meets the required standards set down by apple and then be able to distribute it any way I see fit!
But lets face it, so long as it makes money, why should they let go of it!