And yet us iPhone developers get the shaft. I can't help but think whatever part of the corporate culture that breeds this kind of stuff got cut off near the iTunes Connect department.
Okay. Tim. I understand why you're mad about the iPhone development situation. I would like to offer you, however, the following points to give you a teensy bit of perspective:
* 99.9% of all applications submitted are approved without controversy.
* The App Store is still new. It's slightly more than a year old. Therefore, it's still got glitches in its processes, very obviously.
* For something so young, it's exploded in use. Two billion app downloads in just over a year? That's insane. That's so insane I doubt anybody can quite process it mentally.
* Therefore, every small error in Apple's process has been magnified to the point it looks like a gaping wound.
* Apple is certainly working on this, and putting a lot of effort into it.
* Apple won't TELL you they're working on this until they've already come up with what they believe is an iron solution, because Apple doesn't like admitting their ideas don't spring fully-grown from the head of Zeus.
* Apple's got an amazing track record, and so it's logical to think that within a year or two they will figure out how to suck a lot less. That's a reasonable amount of time to give them.
* No excuse about "I can't make a living reliably until they fix this", because anybody insane enough to try and make a living from a brand-new piece of software ought to at least know the risks they made.
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.
Selling 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.
I meant the iTunes Connect application, not the review process. It's a hodgepodge of of a system that doesn't seem to have gotten the same care and attention that most other areas of Apple's business get. Especially considering the tens of thousands of people that view it regularly.
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And yet us iPhone developers get the shaft. I can't help but think whatever part of the corporate culture that breeds this kind of stuff got cut off near the iTunes Connect department.
Okay. Tim. I understand why you're mad about the iPhone development situation. I would like to offer you, however, the following points to give you a teensy bit of perspective:
* 99.9% of all applications submitted are approved without controversy.
* The App Store is still new. It's slightly more than a year old. Therefore, it's still got glitches in its processes, very obviously.
* For something so young, it's exploded in use. Two billion app downloads in just over a year? That's insane. That's so insane I doubt anybody can quite process it mentally.
* Therefore, every small error in Apple's process has been magnified to the point it looks like a gaping wound.
* Apple is certainly working on this, and putting a lot of effort into it.
* Apple won't TELL you they're working on this until they've already come up with what they believe is an iron solution, because Apple doesn't like admitting their ideas don't spring fully-grown from the head of Zeus.
* Apple's got an amazing track record, and so it's logical to think that within a year or two they will figure out how to suck a lot less. That's a reasonable amount of time to give them.
* No excuse about "I can't make a living reliably until they fix this", because anybody insane enough to try and make a living from a brand-new piece of software ought to at least know the risks they made.
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.
Selling 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.
I meant the iTunes Connect application, not the review process. It's a hodgepodge of of a system that doesn't seem to have gotten the same care and attention that most other areas of Apple's business get. Especially considering the tens of thousands of people that view it regularly.
it's not just developers. it's also partners, subcontractors and, primarily, users.
I also wonder whether Sun Danyong was treated as nicely?
So, you're an iPhone dev getting the shaft hey? Prey tell, what do you think Apple owe you now?