Garrett Murray Posts His Concerns With The iTunes App Store – Ego 1.3

Posted at Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

This kind of thing continually reinforces something I’ve thought about a lot since the App store was released, which sounds horrible to say but it might be true: Apple is creating an ecosystem of the kind of customers I don’t want. With the ridiculous approval process leaving bugfixes to take over a week to show up, with prices being driven down to nothing by farting apps… it just feels hostile to me. While I have plenty of great customers who have been raving about the app, all it takes is one little issue and it all comes crashing down.

A nice article that exposes some real flaws in the Apple iTunes App Store. We should be encouraging developers like Garrett to continue creating awesome applications, not discouraging them with a convoluted process.

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– via Garrett Murray

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What? That doesn’t make any sense.

His app, as originally written, appears to have been screen-scraping Google Analytics. That is NOTHING to build a business on. If he had gotten a supported API from Google to begin with, he wouldn’t have anything to complain about.

Further, he knew how long it takes to get an iPhone app approved – and he still wrote his app in an incredibly brittle way that he HAD to know was going to break. Complaining about a process that he knew was in place after the fact is dumb.

And really, arguing with users that the key feature in his app is fixed when it isn’t fixed yet is just asking for trouble. “Solved” is NOT “a relative term,” regardless of what Mr. Murray thinks.

The guy made a rookie programming mistake and now he’s crying about it and blaming everyone else – I cannot believe that people are taking his side.

Jemaleddin | April 22, 2009 | 9am