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For as long as the iPhone has millions of users willing to part with their cash, there'll never be a shortage of developers.
by pclark 17y ago
For as long as the iPhone has millions of users willing to part with their cash, there'll never be a shortage of developers.
- viraptor 17y agoThere are developers who care and developers who are in it for money. If there's only money left and no joy in iPhone development (when people who blogged, taught and promoted leave), the quality of apps in general might fall down a lot.
- khelloworld 17y agoWhile there are a lot of hobbyists on the app store, there are a lot of people doing actual business -- and they make up for a majority of the noteworthy apps (apps like Things, Tap Tap Revenge, games from EA come to mind). I doubt their quality would go down, as you suggest.
- probablycorey 17y agoTap Tap Revenge is written with Lua, which is now apparently forbidden by Apple. So, people doing actually business, making noteworthy apps are going to be hurt by Apple's policys as well. It isn't a fringe group that uses languages other than Objective-C on the iPhone, it is a large group of people.
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- glhaynes 17y agoExcellent point. It's my strong hope that facts like this (major apps already on the store -- used in the announcement yesterday, in fact) will cause Apple to have to significantly rewrite this part of the agreement.
- doron 17y agoSo they rewrite it? so what? the restriction they impose stem from their business model. So you will write a Obj-C app, and then apple will deny it app store access, you cant sell it anywhere else, your effort and investment are worthless. Developers shouldn't cozy up to this new restriction nor should they accept the app store arbitrary model. you accept one its no surprise that the other one comes down. Bottom line, developers bending over for apple should not be surprised when they get reamed.
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- itistoday 17y agoSource? Where did you hear this? I can't find anything on Google about TTR using Lua.
- codyrobbins 17y agoAnd then there are developers who aren’t ideologues—that simultaneously care and are in it for money. You’re implying a false dichotomy.
- mrkurt 17y agoYeah, but the ones who care seem increasingly likely to get violated by Apple. Thursday I was "someone who cared and was in it for the money", today I'm not. :)
- bombs 17y agoMaybe they don't care, maybe they just like to complain loudly?
- viraptor 17y agoI didn't want to imply these are the only groups, or that there's no overlap...
- whereareyou 17y agoVery Jim Taggart of you.
- poppysan 17y agoits a symbiotic relationship though. If developers do not make any more apps, they will be forced to make changes.