Comments on: PodcasterGate: Rejects Gagged and Ad-Hoc Slagged! http://www.imore.com/2008/09/24/podcastergate-rejects-gagged-and-ad-hoc-slagged/ More of everything iPhone and iPad Thu, 24 May 2012 20:40:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: thekevinmonster http://www.imore.com/2008/09/24/podcastergate-rejects-gagged-and-ad-hoc-slagged/comment-page-1/#comment-15757 thekevinmonster Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:38:29 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/?p=4573#comment-15757 <p>I personally think that Apple is barking up the wrong tree with this weird interpretation of policy. Their lack of transparency basically causes people to sit around guessing, which almost always means people guess negative. I think in general, developers aren't accustomed to having to get permission to do something in this particular way, so that's where a big part of the problem comes from. (console video games, afaik, have always had a similar sort of approval process... right?)</p> <p>the ad-hoc thing doesn't bug me. Ad-hoc distribution is meant for in-house applications for small companies, and for beta testing. it's not meant to circumvent the itunes store for mainstream distribution. If they want to prevent people from abusing it, well, that's fine.</p> I personally think that Apple is barking up the wrong tree with this weird interpretation of policy. Their lack of transparency basically causes people to sit around guessing, which almost always means people guess negative. I think in general, developers aren't accustomed to having to get permission to do something in this particular way, so that's where a big part of the problem comes from. (console video games, afaik, have always had a similar sort of approval process... right?)

the ad-hoc thing doesn't bug me. Ad-hoc distribution is meant for in-house applications for small companies, and for beta testing. it's not meant to circumvent the itunes store for mainstream distribution. If they want to prevent people from abusing it, well, that's fine.

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