Really? The OS hasn’t changed one bit since 2007? So 3rd party apps, copy/paste, push notifications, and the like have been around since the first version of the OS? You’re right. The OS has made no innovation since its inception. It has all been nothing but “silly upgrades”. Tell ya what … if you think it’s all so “silly” why don’t you give back your 3G and GPS. Oh, you may as well give back that silly MobileMe upgrade as well.

The funny thing about consumer electronics is that people are always griping about what they don’t have. They’re rarely happy with the innovation that has been done. You give someone a phone that’s innovative and they gripe because it’s missing this and that. Never mind the fact that it’s already doing things that were impossible to find on any other phone previously. Suddenly it’s a piece of crap because it won’t wash your car and bail you out of jail.

I’m assuming you’re mistaking when you say we wouldn’t have MMS or video recording if it weren’t for the JB community. I seriously doubt Steve Jobs was standing by patiently waiting for the JB community to create MMS and video recording so he could include it in the next version of the iPhone. He doesn’t have a team of engineers and programmers for that or anything. The JB community TOTALLY invented MMS and video recording. AT&T didn’t have anything to do with it either. You’re right … Google is learning from Apple’s mistakes and putting MMS and video recording “all out there”. How long did it take them to implement multitouch operations?

You know, a company can’t produce a “revolutionary product” with every single software release. Things such as maintenance, bug fixes, security holes, and whatnot have to be addressed. “Silly upgrades” need to be added as well.

It’s very likely Apple has a separate team of developers working on your “silly upgrades” and a team of developers working on the “next gen” version of the OS. It takes years to develop a new platform; especially if it’s innovative or “revolutionary”. Do you think that every software upgrade will be revolutionary? Absolutely not. I can, However, guarantee you that they are working on something revolutionary. They always are, and it will be released as soon as it is finished being polished.

If you mean “playing catch up” when you say “Google is learning from apples mistakes n putting it all out there.” you’re absolutely correct. Too bad for Google by the time they “put it all out there” Apple will be releasing the next version that will make Google go back to the drawing board and start playing catch up again.

And calling people names will not make your argument sound any more intelligent. Watch as I make my entire comment sound more dumb: Grow up little boy.

As for the post at hand, it would be one thing if the app were a finalist in the “Google Developer Challenge” but that’s not the case. The app is a finalist in Google’s ANDRIOD DEVELOPERs challenge. How does an iPhone app have anything to do with it’s Android brother/sister? Has Android started using Objective-C? The iPhone version has nothing to do with the Android version and bragging about his accomplishment in becoming a finalist in an Android contest is better suited for his resume, not his iPhone app description. All becoming a finalist in Google’s Android Developers Challenge means is that he may be a good developer. It doesn’t have anything to do with his iPhone app.

I’ll have to agree with others when they say that Toyota wouldn’t allow someone to sit there on their car lot and promote Ford. Maybe it would be different if becoming a finalist in the Android Developers Challenge had ANYTHING to do with his iPhone app, but it doesn’t.

http://www.diverse-group.com/menu/blog.html

Apple is scared of Android…

Personally I don’t care what the crap these app dev’s put in the description I read the reviews first. Because the description is to sell you on the app to me the only thing that sells me is the screenies and the reviews. ( the negative ones actually)

Honestly everyone just got way to worked up over a BS quote. Apple does what apple does nobody is going to change that. Only time will tell if history will repeat itself. (if left like it is I think it’s a good possibility)

good day P.

My “hater” comment wasn’t even directed toward you, or anyone else disagreeing with Apple — it was directed toward the two Nazi comments (#7 and #22).

I love my iPhone, but I’ll hold off for a while on the iPad. For a phone I didn’t care much that big brother decides what I can put on it. This is different for a computer-like device. With actions as this description censorship I won’t be surprised if the iP* platform goes the way of the Mac market share vs. other more open systems.

My suggestion to Apple would be to spin off the app store to an independent institution, where apps are controlled against destructive/virus behavior, but no harmless descriptions which platforms an app is available on.

I can’t see anybody saying Apple is acting illegally here. Petty, yes. Shady, possibly. Illegal, no. Were Apple a monopoly, the DOJ would be taking a good, long, look, but they are not, and so they are legally in the clear.

I can’t speak for Sadie, et al, but my fears are purely market based. Apple had 6 years of technical superiority and unprecedented margins with Macs, too, and famously pursued margins and discounted developers. It took MS almost a decade to get its head out of its @ss, but, when they did, those developers became Windows best salespeople, by far, and the Mac wilted.

Apple seems determined to chart the same course, and, sure, it is enormously profitable now — but I remember 55 or bust (referring to profit margins) shirts triumphantly parading around Cupertino in the late 80s, as well. It took years for this attitude to poison the Mac, and, I don’t think it will hurt the iPhone in 2010, 2011, or even 2012. But, unless Apple learns from its own history, eventually, yes, the market is going to have to teach them the same lesson.

@The real truth

Yes, the Nazi comments are embarrassingly stupid.

@ macboy if apple was to sell a garbage bag full of trash n called it “revolutionary” you’d probably the 1st one in line to buy it. Grow up little boy.

Yet, no ones says anything about Sony having say in what plays on a PS3. Or MS on the XBox. All of this “Apple folk are Nazis” stuff is just offensive. Apple, like Google, and Sony, and Nokia, and MS, are all for-profit companies and face serious competition between them. These companies are not government funded social working departments who’s job it is to appease everyone the best they can.

Capitalism promotes competition and competition is fierce in the mobile/electronics industry. Fighting for that top spot of success has always been what makes this country great. It used to not be a crime to try and make a buck in this country.

Ok, fine. Doesn’t change to outcome of the opinion though.

What I “hate” is that in the mid 90s it became no longer viable to do my favorite type of work (game programming) on the Mac. Yeah, a few people still did it, but most of us jumped to Windows, in part because of economies of scale, but also in part because Apple’s continued middle finger to developers.

I kept my Macs, of course, but sadly watched them slide towards irrelevance. When I see Apple again extend an irrational middle finger to developers, you can be damn sure I will say something, because I love my iPhone and it will sicken me to see Apple repeat the same mistakes and allow an inferior platform to get a foothold and take over. But they seem determined to do just that – if anything, they are doubling down from the old days.

In the immortal words of Pincess Leia, “the tighter you clench your fist the more star systems will slip through your grasp.”. I’m truly sorry you cannot smell the foul stench of Grand Mof Tarkin in Cupertino’s actions, but those who love Apple will call them on it to (try and) keep them from suffering a similar fate.

Forgive any typos – I am typing this on my iPhone – or are we not allowed to do that unless we are in total lockstep?

your analogy is incorrect – this is not an advertisement, this is the packaging

I think his app ratings speak for themselves, adding the fact that he’s a finalist in google’s dev challenge, doesn’t make me want to buy the app, it actually makes me interested in finding out more about the Google dev challenge, and which app actually won first place…

It’s kind of strange what a lightning rod Apple is for criticism. Even non-issues become controversey…

And why the they need an iPhone for Android devs???????

Anyway, do you guys think that you can go in a Best Buy and hang some Circuit City ads on the wall?

Seriously, Android Fanboys are getting way to much out of control these days

“Nice app ya got here…be a shame if anything were ta happen ta it.”