Re: Apple's Mistake
Chris H.I've been reading a lot of blog posts during the last year about how bad it is that Apple acts as a gatekeeper to the App Store. I don't mean to suggest in this post that Apple's system is without its flaws, but I don't believe the situation is as bad as all these prominent developers make it out to be. I say this both as a user, and as an admittedly inexperienced developer. One thing that is a problem though is that it has taken this long for Apple to address the concerns of the developer community. While I think the individual problems are somewhat overblown, there clearly is a problem. I'm not so sure the solution is so easy as many developers make it out to be though. There are tens of thousands of developers, more than a hundred thousand applications, and tens of millions of users. Any changes have to satisfy lots of paying customers.
There are a number of common threads in all the discussion about how bad it is:
- You can get rejected for no reason whatsoever.
- It takes forever for an application to get approved.
- It is evil of Apple to act as gatekeeper -- regardless of the implementation.