Prized Devs Leaving iPhone In The Dust

Continued issues with the App Store approval process are prompting developers to shun the platform entirely. Though there are tens of thousands of other developers pumping out over 100,000 iPhone apps, will continued migration away from iPhone development result in less quality software for the platform? Worse yet, will users even care?
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Apple’s control over the App Store—which seems arbitrary at times—still frustrates developers. That much isn’t a surprise, but some developers have become frustrated to the point that they have decided to simply halt iPhone development altogether. Facebook’s Joe Hewitt, Second Gear’s Justin Williams, and long-time Mac software developer Rogue Amoeba have all recently decided that enough is enough, and the loss of these developers and others could spell a troubling future for the App Store. True, it has over 100,000 applications, but how many of them are created with the kind of care and passion we take for granted in the Mac software world?

Hewitt, a respected Web developer who previously worked on Firefox and its highly regarded developer plug-in Firebug, recently handed off responsibility for Facebook’s successful iPhone app to another engineer at the company. Hewitt cited his frustration with Apple’s approval process for the move:

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