One Year Later, Disgruntled iPhone App Developer Still Disgruntled

http://www.cultofmac.com/one-year-later-disgruntled-iphone-app-developer-still-disgruntled/16609

by fogus • 17 years ago

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hyperbovine• 17 years ago

This is my pick for "mistaken Onion headline of the day".

spaghetti2• 17 years ago

Good to hear! Hopefully he can help whatever other platform he chooses become legitimate competition for the iPhone.

gcheong• 17 years ago

The problem with that wish is that the iPhone was "big" before there were developers for it as there wasn't even an api initially. Developers were clamoring to develop for the iPhone because they saw how big it was going to be in the market. If all the iPhone developers today decided to go to android, it wouldn't move the android needle one bit, it would just open up a huge hole to be filled with other aspiring iPhone developers. What needs to happen is there needs to be a competing device that gains as much traction with users as the iPhone and that doesn't look like it's going to happen very soon.

spaghetti2• 17 years ago

Good points. However I think the "stay hungry stay foolish" attitude is appropriate here. Imo it will take only a few "success" stories on Android (or whatever) for the platform to catch on. Sure it seems difficult (recall the article on HN talking about dismal sales figures for a relatively highly ranked android app). But it's definitely possible. So I guess my original post was just hoping the author would be the first real success story on a non-iPhone platform.

Kejistan• 17 years ago

I keep hearing that the problem with the approval process is that there are too many apps submitted for the testers to handle. What I don't get though is why Apple can't just hire more testers and be done with it. The fact that they won't do this would seem to indicate that lack of testers isn't really the problem.

One Year Later, Disgruntled iPhone App Developer Still Disgruntled

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