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Apple's Delays Could Cost iPhone Developer $600K

16 points by peter123 18y ago

patrickg-zill 18y ago
It's bad that he didn't get any kind of feedback from Apple as to why... however this headline could also read "iPhone Developer Spends $600K Despite Having No Guarantees of Acceptance into Proprietary Platform" ...
harpastum 18y ago
The article should read Company Spends $600,000 Developing App for Proprietary Service that Violates TOS (but Gets No Response). The article states "FreedomVoice was planning to charge a monthly rate of $5 for the service." This is a clear violation of the App Store TOS (although that will change once 3.0 comes out).
- icey 18y ago
  I wonder if there would be repercussions if he were to sell his application for jailbroken phones in the meantime.
- silencio 18y ago
  How is this a violation of the TOS? There are plenty of iPhone applications out there for SaaS (i.e. Evernote, rememberthemilk).
- ibsulon 18y ago
  Then, it's simple. Reject the app. Say it violates TOS. Have a nice day. I'm starting to think that the best way to do a big application is to start small and keep getting bigger. I haven't heard these horror stories of review problems once an application is launched. As it stands, I wouldn't attempt a large application on the system.
jonknee 18y ago
That's OK, Google Voice would have crushed their dreams anyway.
Timothee 18y ago
Wasn't a story about this app for the same issue done a few months ago already? (Googling...) I found this article: http://www.macblogz.com/2008/12/17/iphone-dev-spends-500k-on-development-still-not-approved-by-apple/ http://www.macblogz.com/2008/12/17/iphone-dev-spends-500k-on... So yeah 3 months ago it was talked about and nothing has changed since.
dsil 18y ago
The only thing you could really assign as Apple costing you for a delay, is the amount of money you would have made on your app during the time before you ultimately got accepted. Whether you spent $600k or a weekend building it has nothing to do with apple costing you a dime.

16 points by peter123 18y ago

It's bad that he didn't get any kind of feedback from Apple as to why... however this headline could also read "iPhone Developer Spends $600K Despite Having No Guarantees of Acceptance into Proprietary Platform" ...

harpastum 18y ago

The article should read Company Spends $600,000 Developing App for Proprietary Service that Violates TOS (but Gets No Response). The article states "FreedomVoice was planning to charge a monthly rate of $5 for the service." This is a clear violation of the App Store TOS (although that will change once 3.0 comes out).

icey 18y ago
I wonder if there would be repercussions if he were to sell his application for jailbroken phones in the meantime.
silencio 18y ago
How is this a violation of the TOS? There are plenty of iPhone applications out there for SaaS (i.e. Evernote, rememberthemilk).
ibsulon 18y ago
Then, it's simple. Reject the app. Say it violates TOS. Have a nice day. I'm starting to think that the best way to do a big application is to start small and keep getting bigger. I haven't heard these horror stories of review problems once an application is launched. As it stands, I wouldn't attempt a large application on the system.

jonknee 18y ago

That's OK, Google Voice would have crushed their dreams anyway.

Timothee 18y ago

Wasn't a story about this app for the same issue done a few months ago already? (Googling...) I found this article: http://www.macblogz.com/2008/12/17/iphone-dev-spends-500k-on-development-still-not-approved-by-apple/ http://www.macblogz.com/2008/12/17/iphone-dev-spends-500k-on... So yeah 3 months ago it was talked about and nothing has changed since.

dsil 18y ago

The only thing you could really assign as Apple costing you for a delay, is the amount of money you would have made on your app during the time before you ultimately got accepted. Whether you spent $600k or a weekend building it has nothing to do with apple costing you a dime.