Comments on: The Curious Case of iVidCam – Should Two Wrongs Make an Acceptance?

By: iVidCam

iVidCam — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:55:30 +0000

I know this story’s old, but iVidCam just got approved and put into the iTunes AppStore. Enjoy!

By: Rex

Rex — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:04:03 +0000

This guy’s a whiner. Apple is right on this one. His other apps look like a case of quantity over quality.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:03:45 +0000

Put it in Cydia, they have a store now, but you’d compete with CyCorder. Not sure if that’s against your other apps that actually made it to the App Store.

By: fassy

fassy — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:43:25 +0000

Life does not have to be fair, but it has a way of balancing itself, and corporate arrogance always -- eventually -- comes home to roost.

Platform companies that treat their partners/developers arbitrarily eventually see those communities and developers leave for greener pastures, even if those fields are only "good enough", not technically equal. It happened from Mac->Windows, and, if Apple is not careful, it is going to happen from iPhone->(Android? Pre? Symbian? Something else?)

By: Big Willie

Big Willie — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:05:51 +0000

Who said life was fair?

By: fassy

fassy — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:59:04 +0000

You left out the part where Apple repeatedly featured apps using the same infringing APIs on the front page of the App Store. To keep with your analogy, if the police station gave each jaywalker in front me of the key to the city and a plaque celebrating how fast they crossed the street, then yes, I might think that I would at least avoid a ticket.

That still makes it a gamble on GPSApp's part, but not a reckless one. The platform and App Store are still riding high -- and deservedly so -- but as other phones catch up there is going to come a time where Apple's lack of consistency and fairness is going to drive talented developers to other platforms first.