Another Dev Kicks Apple
Fed up with Apple’s dictatorship another quality App developer gives apple the finger and embraces Android!
The story:
Tim Bray Throws His Hat Into The Android Ring Because He Hates The iPhone
As Apple goes on the offensive against Android, it risks alienating more and more developers. Today, another prominent developer chose the opposing side. Tim Bray, [...]
Wanted to Know How Apple Throttles Its Developers? Now you can! (UPDATED)
Get the skinny on how Apple literally “uses” its developers.
The first rule of the iPhone developer program is: You do not talk about the iPhone developer program.
Before you create software for the iPhone, Apple demands that you sign away a laundry list of rights, including the ability to sell rejected apps through other channels, [...]
Apple Biting Off More Than It Can Chew? Hopefully!
Apple is a company that makes some really good looking electronics, but have the stinkiest policies as well as worst DRM and that’s why we really really realllly dislike them.
For a long time we had wondered why doesn’t Apple get into hot water the way Micro$oft does with their browser, after all, Apple bundles their [...]
Apple Trying Not To Give iPhone’s Source Code
Here’s a bunch of folks who really need all the luck they can get… because they are trying to get the source code for for the iphone: from Apple!
Then there’s the small matter of slapping Apple with a class action lawsuit…
We have a love hate relationship with class action lawsuits, it seems that the lawyers [...]
Apple Leaves Customers Smoking
Apple cares for your health… NOT!
Fact is we really wouldn’t give a damn about this story if Apple just had it in writing that smoking may violate your “AppleCare” agreement.
But no, Apple does what Apple pleases and thanks largely to the fanbois, they get away it it.
This gets added to my list of why not [...]
Apple Defends It’s Crazy Policies
What must feel like another slap in the face to its iPhone developers, Apple fully defends and deflects blame for its iphone policies.
Two Sources, the first, TC:
Phil Schiller Grants Interview About Apple’s App Store, Claims Devs Actually Like Approval Process
Phil Schiller, Apple’s SVP of Worldwide Product Marketing, is back on his one-man crusade to defend [...]
Another Apple Dev Speaks His Mind… And Leaves Apple.
Another really ticked off app developer leaves Apple because of their policies.
Apple makes some really good products (full disclosure, I’m writing this post on a MacBook Pro) but insist on holding everything in an iron fist, which is one of the main reasons we (who program) at eZee didn’t take to iPhone programming when the [...]
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 [...]
Apple Requests, No, DEMANDS Your Attention
Apple’s filed a patent on a design for a device that won’t let its owner use it unless that person demonstrates that she has complied with an advertiser’s demands by paying attention to an ad and taking some action indicating her dutiful attention.
It’s amazing how many of these vendors fail to understand Chekhov’s first law [...]
Facebook: Devs vs Apple
(There is a related article on this right here at eZee)
In July of last year, I wrote about The New Apple Walled Garden. The post was about the irony of developers and advocates who were otherwise open standards and open source champions being absolutely pro-iPhone, a platform that is closed and proprietary in every sense. [...]
