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Two problems. #1 The biggest developers don't deal with this. You really think EA has to put up with this crap? The Google Voice thing was a highly publicized

Two problems. #1 The biggest developers don't deal with this. You really think EA has to put up with this crap? The Google Voice thing was a highly publicized fiasco, but I'd be willing to bet that sort of treatment of other publicly-traded companies is rare, and even that story probably has much more behind it than we know. #2. There's so much money to be made that if half the small developers quit, the rest will simply fill the void. It's the same game theory concept that ensures the tuna will be fished into extinction. It would be in everyone's long term best interest to band together and make Apple fix their policies, but in each individual's short term interest to take the money and run. *Totally did not notice when I said that that the very next article on the list was about the extinction of the Bluefin Tuna. Scary.

rjurney 17y ago
Probably not a coincidence. There's noticing, and then there's noticing ;)
- mattmaroon 17y ago
  Actually my thought was more along the game theoretical lines than that article. The Bluefin Tuna is screwed because each country's long-term incentive is to sustain its population and severely curtail fishing. Unless every country but one does that, of course, leaving the country that crosses the picket line to make billions of dollars at the expense of the others.
chaosprophet 17y ago
Point number 2 is what is the biggest problem. Unless there is an all-at-once unanimous decision to stop working on the iPhone platform by atleast 80pc of developers, nothing is going to change. The only way that can happen is if someone builds a phone better than the iPhone, and offers developers some kind of massive incentive to shift (which is not likely going to happen in the near future).
there 17y ago
You really think EA has to put up with this crap? that was kind of my point. ea knows very well what other developers are going through, but until they get an app rejected, they're not going to do anything about it. i was suggesting that these top developers stand up and use their pull to convince apple to change on behalf of all iphone developers.

rjurney 17y ago

Probably not a coincidence. There's noticing, and then there's noticing ;)

mattmaroon 17y ago
Actually my thought was more along the game theoretical lines than that article. The Bluefin Tuna is screwed because each country's long-term incentive is to sustain its population and severely curtail fishing. Unless every country but one does that, of course, leaving the country that crosses the picket line to make billions of dollars at the expense of the others.

chaosprophet 17y ago

Point number 2 is what is the biggest problem. Unless there is an all-at-once unanimous decision to stop working on the iPhone platform by atleast 80pc of developers, nothing is going to change. The only way that can happen is if someone builds a phone better than the iPhone, and offers developers some kind of massive incentive to shift (which is not likely going to happen in the near future).

there 17y ago

You really think EA has to put up with this crap? that was kind of my point. ea knows very well what other developers are going through, but until they get an app rejected, they're not going to do anything about it. i was suggesting that these top developers stand up and use their pull to convince apple to change on behalf of all iphone developers.