Comments on: Rogue Amoeba Continues The App Store Withdrawal Protest

By: Waveboard 2.0 Gets Rejected Over Joe Hewitt’s Code | TEST ZONE

Waveboard 2.0 Gets Rejected Over Joe Hewitt’s Code | TEST ZONE — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:19:40 +0000

[...] Rogue Amoeba Continues The App Store Withdrawal Protest [...]

By: Dave M.

Dave M. — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:12:58 +0000

There is also a very strong argument on the other side of that fence by DaringFireball: http://daringfireball.net/2009/11/airfoil_touch_situation

Also, RogueAmoeba has just posted a follow-up to the situation clearifying some of the points made in LaMarche’s argument: http://www.rogueamoeba.com/utm/2009/11/13/airfoil-speakers-touch-correcting-misconceptions/

Apple has a clear problem with applications that use artwork of “any kind” that show their products. RSS Player’s develoeper, Alex Sokirynsky was just informed that their latest attempt at restoring RSS Player was rejected because an image of a Podcast show has an iPhone in it’s picture that is used in the splash screen of RSS Player. So now, the Alex has to wait another 2 weeks to a month to get his application update published.

There is protecting intellectual property, and there is over protecting intellectual property. If Apple applied AppStore policies to everything else, they would find it exceptionally difficult to sell any of their product outside of their own stores and websites and equally difficult for any accessories to ever get sold.

By: ErichD

ErichD — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:37:58 +0000

While I’d like to side with devs against Apple, It’s important to take second look at Rogue Amoeba’s claims.

(According to Jeff LaMarche, the claims are largely false)
http://iphonedevelopment.blogspot.com/2009/11/rogue-amoeba.html

By: Dave M.

Dave M. — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:45:35 +0000

Well, while Mr. Hewitt’s departure is certainly well covered, he’s not the first to leave the platform.

As for Mr. Hewitt causing a trend, I would say that Apple is the one starting the trend by being so anal about the approval process of the AppStore.

If Apple isn’t careful, they are going to have 100,000 fart, flashlight, and sexy picture apps and be as wanted as a pimple.

By: JMG

JMG — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:15:58 +0000

Well, I’m glad some folks are starting to stand up for the rest of us but it is probalby too late. Apple just gets a hall pass from their fans…one could only imagine the “solutions” to this if Microsoft were doing the same thing.