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Do you work on the iTunes Store or in the Apple Developer program? If not, I question the authority of your "99.9%" claim. As far as all of the other arguments
by boucher 17y ago
Do you work on the iTunes Store or in the Apple Developer program? If not, I question the authority of your "99.9%" claim.
As far as all of the other arguments, they are very touchy feely. "The App Store is new" but it's built on top of a store that's been around for 7 years. And that store already processes billions of transactions annually, so those numbers don't strike me as crippling.
I don't know what Apple is or isn't doing, but I do know what they've admitted to publicly, and I do know dozens of (well respected) developers who have had issues with the app store. I also know that Apple has lied about the store in the past. So, I think some criticism is deserved here.
As far as relating it to the employee paperwork, that was absurd. They've been using the same paperwork for years. It's completely unrelated.
- unalone 17y agoSelling an mp3 file is different from selling a bundled application that contains a slew of different features and functions. Apple has a whole bunch of things they don't want appearing on applications, because they want to control the coding environment. A song requires no control. An app requires a lot. So no, this isn't something that's been around for 7 years—though I recall iTunes store having its own problems when it launched. I do know dozens of (well respected) developers who have had issues with the app store. Dozens out of thousands of developers. 99.9% might have been a stretch, I don't know the exact numbers. 99% wouldn't have been. So, I think some criticism is deserved here. There's a difference between criticizing Apple and hijacking a conversation about something entirely different to rant about the App Store. There are critical essays about the latter every day or two. We can complain about Apple there.