Yo, Apple: Ease Up
Dear Apple,
Regarding your recent behavior towards your iPhone Developer Network: please stop being such fascists.
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). It’s quite another to reject applications because they are like yours and (heaven forbid) possibly even perform better than your own.
Be nice.
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.
What’s wrong with a little competition? What do you have to be scared of? People should be challenging you to improve your own applications. Let us, the users, make the choice. 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. And really, we both know your apps are going to be better in the end anyway. But let us figure that out for ourselves.
We’re smart. We bought your iPhone in the first place, didn’t we? Trust us to put what we want on it.
I don’t want to hear any more crap like this from you. Really? A statement of confidentiality to gag your developers, preventing them from venting that they just blew months of dev time on an application you rejected for no reason? Come on. You’re better than this. Or at least you used to be.
Shape up!
Until you do, I will scream from the hilltops that Jailbreak is the only way to iPhone.
Sincerely,
Jeff
Lord Geek Supreme
Geek Chic