http://www.macvoices.com/wordpress/macvoices-9118-paul-kafasis-talks-about-why-rogue-amoeba-is-discontinuing-their-iphone-app-development/ Chuck Joiner talks with the most interesting and influential people in the Mac industry, as well as the individuals who are out there making it happen on the front lines of the global Apple community. Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:53:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.macvoices.com/wordpress/macvoices-9118-paul-kafasis-talks-about-why-rogue-amoeba-is-discontinuing-their-iphone-app-development/#comment-47049 ncm Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:13:32 +0000 http://www.macvoices.com/wordpress/?p=1126#comment-47049 As a long-time customer and fan of Rogue Amoeba's apps for the Mac, I understand Paul's frustrations. Apple's app review process is flawed and there don't seem to be any clear and sensible guidelines. One finds totally stupid and badly written apps there as well as quality stuff by serious Mac developers like Paul. I like the idea of alternate sources, with a disclaimer by Apple to cover it from spurious lawsuits, or a real review of apps with better guidelines - the recent scandal of an app that harvested a user's information when the app was run is a good example. Either Apple gets its stuff together and does a serious overhaul of it's approval criteria (and possibly trains it's reviewers more thoroughly) or it is going to keep on losing the best app developers. As a long-time customer and fan of Rogue Amoeba’s apps for the Mac, I understand Paul’s frustrations. Apple’s app review process is flawed and there don’t seem to be any clear and sensible guidelines. One finds totally stupid and badly written apps there as well as quality stuff by serious Mac developers like Paul. I like the idea of alternate sources, with a disclaimer by Apple to cover it from spurious lawsuits, or a real review of apps with better guidelines – the recent scandal of an app that harvested a user’s information when the app was run is a good example. Either Apple gets its stuff together and does a serious overhaul of it’s approval criteria (and possibly trains it’s reviewers more thoroughly) or it is going to keep on losing the best app developers.

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