Monday, November 16, 2009

Are Apple's App Store policies ruining everything?

There's been much ado lately about Apple's App Store policies stifling development and hurting coders. The main problems seem to be the long acceptance process and Apple's self-appointed right to deny an application that isn't in its best interests.

The concerns presented by Facebook app developer Joe Hewitt are real, but I simply cannot agree with his statement that "the review process needs to be eliminated completely." If this were a perfect world where you could trust anyone, I might buy into it. But in the world we live in, there are very good reasons why Apple has a team of 40 or so employees to test and vet every application that appears in the store.

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