Apple, I’ve stood by you for a long time now, but you’re just being stupid.\u00a0 Your App Store rules of rejection and acceptance need to be TRANSPARENT<\/strong>.\u00a0 And when you reject an app like Google Voice<\/a>, man up and give a freaking reason for it.\u00a0 The Beckettian back and forth in #3<\/a> above is something I would expect from Dell.\u00a0 And quite frankly, you deserved the unofficial response you got from Google’s Marissa Mayer<\/a> (passive though it was).<\/p>\n As for #4, I completely agree.\u00a0 If developers keep putting up with this, they’ll need to suck it up.\u00a0 But after #3, why on earth would any sensible company want to spend months developing for iPhone, wait a month or more to be accepted then rejected with no explanation and no suggestions for how to get the app back into the store?\u00a0 As a developer it makes my blood boil.\u00a0 Makes me want to start coding mobile apps for basically any other platform — Android, WebOs… even Windows Mobile.<\/p>\n And as for the crap you’re trying to pull against the EFF and their campaign to make Jailbreaking a legal option, can you smell what you’re shoveling?\u00a0 How can you say Jailbreaking would crash a cell tower?\u00a0 Sure it’s a possibility.\u00a0 But do you really think a serious terrorist would use an iPhone to do that?\u00a0 You can do that with just about anything that can connect to the cellular network (an eval board, an old cell phone… basically anything but a tin can).\u00a0 PLUS, unless you fix that SMS bug in #5 above right quick, a hacker wouldn’t even NEED to jailbreak his phone.\u00a0 He could just send a text message and not only overwhelm the cell towers but crash all of the system’s iPhones in the process.\u00a0 I only hope the courts can see right through that one (see #7 for more analysis on this one).<\/p>\n I’d been a pretty satisfied iPhone customer since the 3.0 (iPhone mind you.\u00a0 not AT&T.\u00a0 AT&T can suck it.<\/a> I only hope Apple doesn’t renew their exclusive contract with them and I can ditch them for another provider when my contract is up.\u00a0 And if they don’t I hope there are better iPhone alternatives by then.)\u00a0 Most of the apps that I installed via Jailbreak were accounted for or rendered unnecessary with copy\/paste, better integration with Google Calendar, etc.<\/p>\n But now, just out of principle, I’m going to jailbreak my phone again.\u00a0 I advise you all to do the same.\u00a0 This walled garden that Apple’s is creating is really stagnating for developer innovation (when there’s 15 variations of ‘Pull My Finger’, how many of those ‘approved’ applications do you really think are useful?).\u00a0 And frankly, their guardianship seems to be done by a gang of ADD monkeys (I need to be 17 to use Wikipanion? Really?\u00a0 And AroundMe?\u00a0 It’s like you understand only the letter of the law, but not the spirit.\u00a0 And frankly I’d rather not have a guardian of my phone than have an overprotective, uncommunicative one).<\/p>\n I guess in my mind, for any healthy industry to thrive, there needs to be some competition.\u00a0 Where’s the competition?\u00a0 Android, step up your game!\u00a0 Palm, your marketing sucks.\u00a0 Do better.<\/p>\n Until then, the best we can do is rebel in mild ways.\u00a0 Like Jailbreaking.\u00a0 Thanks Dev Team<\/a>, for giving us that option.<\/p>\n UPDATE<\/strong>: A bold move from Michael Arrington of TechCrunch: I Quit the iPhone<\/a>. The Saga Continues:<\/strong> Why The FCC Wants To Smash Open The iPhone<\/a> It’s not enough that they have a warning on Wikipanion that some of the content in THE OPEN SOURCE ENCYCLOPEDIA might have content that’s inappropriate for children under 17?\u00a0 They now ban dictionaries for swear words?<\/p>\n It’s like they have the Three Stooges manning their application approval process.\u00a0 I really hope the FCC beats Apple to a pulp on this one.\u00a0 They deserve it.<\/p>\n Alright.\u00a0 I’ve been holding my tongue about Apple’s iPhone App Store and their general iPhone shenanigans for awhile now, but I’ve had it.\u00a0 Apple, you’re being stupid and you need to shape up. 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\nUPDATE 2<\/strong>: Developer Steven Frank is ditching the iPhone too<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nEVEN MORE: <\/strong>Apple Rejects Dictionary App for Containing Swear Words<\/a><\/p>\n![\"three_stooges\"](\"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/three_stooges.jpg\" "\\"three_stooges\\"")
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