Letter to the hardworking iPhone developer

mrgan:

Dear hardworking iPhone developer,

I will not be buying your software. This is no fault of yours, so I apologize in advance.

Recent developments in the area of Apple messing with both you, the developer, and me, the customer, have soured me on this whole iPhone app nonsense. I’m sure this doesn’t come as a surprise. All the usual suspects of Mac development are either crying foul or else deciding to just completely ignore the iPhone platform.

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I’ve been jonesing for an App Store boycott for a while now and I’m glad to see some developers and influential users taking steps in that direction. Until it starts hurting Apple financially in the form of stunted App Store growth and slumping iPhone sales due to that, they’re not going to start taking this seriously. Never in the three years I’ve been aligned with the company have I ever seen them behave in a manner so draconian and “big brotherly”. They need to be stopped.

Friday, July 31, 2009 — 52 notes
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  1. talby reblogged this from mrgan and added:
    Neven Mrgan’s tumbl: Letter
  2. iamkory reblogged this from mrgan and added:
    admit. Apple, how many customers must you lose before you listen?
  3. aayush reblogged this from mrgan and added:
    jonesing for an App Store boycott...influential users taking steps
  4. hypertexty reblogged this from mrgan and added:
    Neven Mrgan lays out his plan...independent iPhone developers while boycotting
  5. tofias reblogged this from mrgan and added:
    right answer, but it...plate sooner than later.
  6. johnrust reblogged this from mrgan and added:
    same thing. mrgan:
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  8. chrisbowler reblogged this from mrgan and added:
    Neven Mrgan explains how he...App Store infrastructure while
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