Apple to 100,000 iPhone developers: don’t call us, we’ll call you

Maddawg, why don’t you stop reading their stupid comments and then crying about them? sounds like your more of a madlemming than maddawg.

ohhhh my!!

here come the fanboys to cry and complain about elmerD for writing yet another fact based article about apple.

i mean really, why stop being a ‘technical reject’ just because you continue to read articles posted by a writer and then cry like you just lost your pacifier.

my advice…QUIT READING IF YOU DON’T LIKE WHAT IT SAYS!!

(or at least quit showing how pathetically stupid of a lemming you are by complaining each and every time after you do read these articles!)

Posted By maddawg, wash. DC : March 15, 2008 8:01 pm

ah yes, more from the so-called “techie” Apple bashers, upset that Steve didn’t build the entire iPhone strategy to massage the inflated egos of bit player developers (and I proudly count myself in that number). Horror of horrors, Steve is pushing the iPhone as a CONSUMER electronic marvel, not a minor developer’s love-child. Yeah, the nerve of that guy…who does Steve think he is, wanting to create the best customer experience he can…and not suffer the commoditization fate of all the other device manufacturers. What the heck is he worried about…the future? And him driving the carriers towards responsiveness - who ever heard of such a thing? Exactly - that’s the magic. How soon we forget the iPhone customer excitement of being able to activate online and not having to wait 30 minutes in some carrier’s cell phone store. So enjoy the smug, cold comfort of your Treo, Blackberry, Nokia, Motorola, whatever, sliding along on the trailing edge of technology. The world is passing you by….go to China and see what phone people not so beholden to existing product investments are clamoring for. So iPhone may be authorized in China before the Olympics — that will get the ball rolling!!

I knew exactly what I would find here from the clueless Apple Fan Boys (Jim Jones’ Cult of 2008), whining about facts along with a reasonable perspective compared with every other computer and mobile device producer. Face it, Apple has <1% market share in computers and mobile phones worldwide because of their nasty attitude toward developers.

As a good contrast, the day the Treo was released, thousands of excellent applications were immediately available, and many were internet enabled. I have apps on that long in the tooth platform that iPhone users can only drool over. (That is, any of them that actually want to use the internet.)

iPhone will be left in the dust in ‘09 with the release of excellent devices that will run Linux. The development model will produce much higher quality, more useful and many more apps than the boring iPhone will ever see.

Get ready to watch the fast irrelevance of the iPhone thanks to Steve Jobs’ freaky control problem.

“Boooooh, Apple doesn’t want me”
all people cry, but i hope apple will not autorize all those 100000 people otherway to find a good application for iphone you’ll need to search trought a big ammount of crap one.
lets be realistic, how many good valid applications can you count for apple computers, let say 5000/6000 maybe more but i wouldn’t be surprise if much less
Do you really want 100.000 application for iphone?
BTW this article really sucks

Being one of the Your Accepted, Charged $99 to my CC then getting the Bugger off letter I’d have to say, It’s Apple Business as usual.

What you don’t see in the news is that they also canceled off their Consulting Advisor program, Affiliate program, among the 8 letters I’ve got in the last 14 months.

For those interested in working with Apple, I’d suggest calling those folks at Redmond. After we got our letter, a rep from Microsoft called and offered to send us a PocketPC smartphone and all development apps and materials at NO CHARGE! It would appear those up north knew what happened and went through their database and made a few emails and calls.

SMART, Very Smart on their part. Especially with the 2009 outlook that PocketPC or whatever it will be called by then will be running on more than just every cell phone built outside of Apple control but also Micro-Notebooks and CarPC’s.

Smart…. Our package is expected in 2 weeks.

“The twitterati,” writes Erica Sadun at TUAW…”

How the hell would she know? She only follows 16 people on Twitter - not exactly a representative sample large enough to write what the “twitterati” think/feel.

This article is needlessly slanted negatively towards Apple. The original article at macrumors is much more objective.

A few points:

— Who believes every app designed should be published? Is there usefulness to this?
—How frustrating to a user would it be to purchase apps that are hype, and don’t do what they say they’re going to do?
— Is it to the users interest that app products are quality products?
— Is it reasonable that developers are vetted?
— Are their developers that are malicious? Do I have to answer that?

Look as an analogy at a book publisher; should they publish every manuscript submitted to them? How would their brand suffer by publishing so much garbage that the consumer quits buying their product simply because of the sheer volume of pointless, badly written books?

There is sound business reason for a publisher of anything to properly vet their submitted work, to provide at least a small modicum of insurance that the consumer is protected and to build their brand appropriately. I would suggest Fortune needs to consider this principle a bit more carefully too.

zzzzzzzz

oh, c;mon already… Apple has said their iphone sw is only beta and it won’t be until june that real customers can buy anything. So, download the kit, write some software now, and plan on a june release. Really, get a grip, folks. Who cares whether you can sign up for the store now, when itunes won’t support sales until june, anyway? That just gives you time to do the development, and the kit is already available.

This article is misleading. The message was not provided to each and every of the 100,000 who downloaded the free software developers kit. At least Apple provided a message. What did Microsoft provide for the Vista fiasco? Microsft’s response, “Get XP!” Despite any negative news, Apple continues to take market share. You can choose their products, while Windows is forced on consumers.

as for non US developer the letter says clearly that non US developers will be accepted during the beta period
that’s between now and June

“QUOTE…What most of us want is a VERY CLEAR statement from Apple that when the “beta” program completes, all that apply will be accepted. ”

I am not reading anywhere that Apple will refuse anyone
by interpretation after reading the articles here mentioned it seems to me Apple is simply approving developers gradually, which makes a lot of sense I would assume that previous Mac developers with a good relationship with Apple in the past, will have precedence over new developer with no prior relationship.
I think it’s pretty clear

100,000 developers = 99,900 or more totally worthless, totally buggy, havoc-wreaking apps to screw up my phone. I applaud Apple for being extremely, and perhaps even unreasonably careful with what gets on the iPhone.

Anyone here ever use a Windows Mobile device??? ’nuff said!

ohhhh my!!

here come the fanboys to cry and complain about elmerD for writing yet another fact based article about apple.

i mean really, why stop being a ‘technical reject’ just because you continue to read articles posted by a writer and then cry like you just lost your pacifier.

my advice…QUIT READING IF YOU DON’T LIKE WHAT IT SAYS!!

(or at least quit showing how pathetically stupid of a lemming you are by complaining each and every time after you do read these articles!)

What most of us want is a VERY CLEAR statement from Apple that when the “beta” program completes, all that apply will be accepted. Right now, you face the prospect of investing time in developing applications with the freely downloadable SDK only to be rejected when the final program is in place. I just want to see a clear, concise statement that would assure that my investment of time is worth it.

PED, I’ve read these aticles of yours for the past year without submitting a post so far but, it is really apparent that you either don’t have anything else to do or write about or Jobs beat you up for your lunch money when you were kids.

As an Apple Mac and now iPhone developer, I’m thrilled with the kind of support Apple has given to it’s developers. Now, I do admit that I’ve been an ADC member for quite some time and think the developer community is great. I’ve been able to develop a few cool apps already for the iPhone and am just waiting for the moment when I can post these for others to use.

“Oh Noes, Apple hates me! Apple won’t let me give $99 so I can put my apps on the Apps Store.”

Apple has to issue digital certificate to registered iPhone Developers. I am pretty sure that it is not as trivial.

Calling the notice as “rejection letter” is the same as calling Linux as “infringement of Microsoft Windows”.

As usual, a small number of people over-reacting and cause unnecessary uproars.

I have an iPhone and I like it quite a bit. However, why are Apple people so snotty and snobby? I mean get off your high horse and stop it.

As a software developer I think what apple is really doing is making sure there aren’t any security issues. it appears they released the sdk too quickly.

You’re either daft or disingenuous. Certainly, you’re not for real…

The author has no intent to apper “reasonable”. His tone is clear. Its clear in every article he writes about Apple. PED is completely transparent in this regard.

The only reason anyone reads his articles is *because* he is a hater. There is no other reason. There is nothing compelling here, nothing interesting, and nothing new.

He knows it. We know it. And yet it all continues. People dig drama.

What’s your issue with Apple anyway?

How is “we plan to expand — We will contact you again ” a “firm rejection letter”?

Apple saying : “You are no longer allowed to develop for the iPhone and we would not communicate with you again on this issue” is a firm rejection.

All Apple is saying now is that they are inundated with applications and they need time (and this is still beta) to process the applications.

Philip do u know what BETA is?

The article is making a mountain out of a mole hill. Revolutionary application software often comes from the fringes of the industry and not the big companies. Apples blessing is not a worry of any software developer who produces something people want, they’ll cross that bridge when it comes. It’s the software companies that want to sell you their little useless little programs and games that need Apple’s blessing.

It is real interesting to see the who wants to get involved in a BETA program. Not I. Why? Because the rules can and do change between this level and the final release. Wanting to be the first out the ‘door’ with a product has proven to be the maker and killer of many companies.
I don’t see any Apple bashing here, but the statement of many facts, some of which are not relavent.

I agree with Jim H’s comments. Another question I have though is how much of this is angst from developers who may not necessarily have Apple’s or iPhone customer’s best interests at heart?

i would love to read an article from you where you do not bash Apple. If you hate Apple so much, why write about it? go write about microsoft or somebody else you like.

Let’s be reasonable. It would be totally impossible for Apple to support over 100,000 “developers” on day one… many of whom may have never previously developed a successful product. Apple has to follow a structured, iterative process to developing this program or it will quickly crash to a chorus of “I told you so” from Apple skeptpics like Philip.