Re:Five rational arguments against Apple's 3.3.1 policy
by donaq on Monday April 12, 2010 @10:02PM
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Well, I guess everyone is hoping that if the outcry is severe enough, Apple will take it out of the agreement. We can be pretty certain that if there is no backlash, the clause will definitely stay.
Re:Five rational arguments against Apple's 3.3.1 policy
by c1sc0 on Tuesday April 13, 2010 @03:23AM
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Ummm, I'm working on a site that still generates 20% of its multi-million revenue from IE6 alone. In the same vein, lots of developers will be developing for iP* for years to come: we have to be where the customer is, and unfortunately that customer has locked himself into the platform with his AppStore purchases.
No, you're not.
This is what I don't understand from all of the developer "outcry" over this: you're not forced to develop for this platform. If you don't trust it anymore, then stop developing for it.
There were ways to make money as a developer before the iPhone came along. There are still plenty of ways to make money as a developer that don't involve dealing with the iPad or the iPhone.
These counter-arguments sound so much like the web developer hatred for IE 6 years ago, where everyone was bemoaning having to develop code specifically for IE 6, and everyone was saying that they had to keep developing code for IE 6, because that's what the users are using. But, years later, it has finally become OK to abandon IE 6 altogether; it could have happened a long time ago if developers had just quit supporting garbage.
Android/Google are looking for good applications developers. Go work with that instead.
Otherwise, it's just noise.