Dear Apple,<\/p>\n
Regarding your recent behavior towards your iPhone Developer Network: please stop being such fascists.<\/p>\n
It’s one thing to hold your developers to high standards and reject apps that do not meet those standards (I’m looking at you, AIM).\u00a0 It’s quite another to reject applications because they are like yours and (heaven forbid) possibly even perform better than your own.<\/p>\n
Be nice.<\/p>\n
Sit back, relax, and remember just how much you rely on the developers of the open source community — how much of their code you’ve rolled into your own.<\/p>\n
What’s wrong with a little competition?\u00a0 What do you have to be scared of?\u00a0 People should be challenging you to improve your own applications.\u00a0 Let us, the users, make the choice.\u00a0 If we want to have 3 mail applications, 12 versions of Sudoku and 85 different ways to upload our photos to Flickr, we can agree that’s stupid, but that should be our choice to make.\u00a0 And really, we both know your apps are going to be better in the end anyway.\u00a0 But let us figure that out for ourselves.<\/p>\n
We’re smart.\u00a0 We bought your iPhone in the first place, didn’t we?\u00a0 Trust us to put what we want on it.<\/p>\n