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I can say from personal experience that Apple started losing people the moment they released the App Store but refused to allow employees to participate. They c

I can say from personal experience that Apple started losing people the moment they released the App Store but refused to allow employees to participate. They created an incredibly exciting platform for development and then locked their best people out of it. No wonder some of them left. The problem is now magnified because today there is much more uncertainty in regards to Apple's future. Jobs is gone, Forstall is being moved out with no obvious successor, Google/Android is taking the lead, the stock price is stagnating, iOS is losing its edge, PC sales (including Apple's) are slowing ... it looks like it could be the beginning of another "beleaguered" era soon. Who would want to stick around for that?

danielrakh 13y ago
That's a fair point. If Apple allowed their employees to publish on the App Store, do you think it would be fair to other developers that the same people working on the technology they use to make Apps have this exclusive insight to the direction and future of the technology?
- outside1234 13y ago
  You mean like all the developers competing with bundled apps?
- grbalaffa 13y ago
  That's a valid concern, however departing employees have been telling Apple this is an issue in their exit interviews pretty much since the day the App Store went live. After all this time they should have been able to come up with some level of compromise solution.