Apple App Store - party developers are not happy

Senior online editor Silicon Alley Insider Dan Frommer (Dan Frommer) sheds light on the complicated relationship of application developers for the iPhone and by the company Apple. The thing is that the online store applications for iPhone - App Store - just a year, but it already has a huge hit with consumers. However, this does not affect Apple's attention to the actual application developers. One of them, Marco Arment (Marco Arment), it would seem to be satisfied: it is pushed into the App Store and it earns a lot of money. Still, he decided to write an angry and accusatory article about Apple executives and the ratio of the latter to developers in general.

It turns out that not only Arment, but many other developers face challenges in cooperation with Apple. Here are some of the drawbacks that describes Arment:

• The process of approval of the application passes a relatively long time - a week, and now a lot of applications are denied approval because of minor imperfections, even more it slows down.
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• At the annual conference of the WWDC, which is traditionally invited to Apple developers, the company refused to answer questions Work App Store, and in fact, many developers have paid thousands of dollars for attending WWDC, just to talk about the store applications.
• New conditions for parental control and age assessment applications require developers to indicate that the applications that fall in Internet contain duplicate images nudity, profanity and discuss drug use, though in fact it is not this way. Arment himself went through it with your application Instapaper, which allows to save the contents of the web sites for viewing it offline.
• iTunes Connect, through which developers work with their child, contains a lot of mistakes and often incorrectly performs important operations.
• And all attempts to communicate with representatives of the developers like Apple talks with the wall.

And although it is clear that the creation of applications for the iPhone brings profits and developers are unlikely to give up such tidbits income Apple executives would cost to pay more attention to those who collaborate with the company and to meet if the developers have questions or Problems. In the end, Apple could explore the experience of Microsoft, whose business is largely based on relationships with partners.