September 22 at 8:23 am
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This is a really sucky (and ongoing) move by Apple, showing they don't know a thing about building an actual third-party developer community. If/when Google releases a native iPhone mail app, will they be similarly blocked? - Kevin Fox
As an Android developer this is almost good news from my perspective. Why choose Android? Because different applications can compete, rather than first-to-market (or Apple native) always wins. - Reto Meier
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I mostly wish they would allow 3rd party podcasting apps on the iPhone. I hate that I have to sync to my laptop to get my podcasts. Everything else comes via the "cloud". - Cyrus Lendvay
Kevin, don't you think they would? I bet Firefox and Chrome would be blocked as well. - Louis Gray
Okay this astonishes me. Apple could do so much to work with the community and yet they are banging into walls instead. - VibeMetrix
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Re: Firefox/Chrome, the SDK agreement already effectively forbids them with this clause: "No interpreted code may be downloaded and used in an Application except for code that is interpreted and run by Apple's Published APIs." Depending on how you define "code," this definitely covers JavaScript, and possibly HTML and CSS. Hard to make a web browser without those. At least here Apple is being upfront about restrictions. With Podcaster and MailWrangler, the rejection was ater a lot of code had been written. - Mihai Parparita
surprised ... Pay me to explain why ... ROTFLMAO - Scott Moskowitz
dear Apple, you suck. let competition flourish and let your users decide which apps are best. - Jon Price
@jon price make product, bro - calling you out !!! Let the market decide - Scott Moskowitz