Developing software for the platform is like playing the lottery. Most people end up losing out while a select few strike it rich.
Read it. It’s worth your time. Also, I tweeted this earlier, noticing the general feeling towards the App Store in the past couple of months.
It’s as if the iPhone development world is waking up with a hangover. Seriously, it’s hilarious to see.
But since this is Apple, I sure do hope that this Trough of Disillusionment is followed by the Slope of Enlightenment. #hypecycle
Heck, look at Rails: Definitely at a Plateau of Productivity. I just hope that the Great Refactor triggers something awesome.
I’m talking about the Hype Cycle. I was a little late to the Technology Trigger, but I was definitely on board for around the Peak of Inflated Expectations. I think the App Store is trying desperately to get to the Plateau of Productivity… and failing at it.
The Google Voice rejection is the most recent addition to the growing list of problems with the App Store. Today, Apple announced a half-way fix for the broken searching in the App Store, and I certainly hope that this is one of many fixes that are to come to alleviate the problems with it.
I stopped doing iPhone development for a couple of reasons, and figuring out that the App Store didn’t really offer a sane viable business platform was one of them. (Although, the actual programming part was amazingly cool. Seriously, a phone… wait… a revolutionary Internet/communication device that I can program?)
But I was reminded by @amdev that Apple is indeed a hardware company. Here’s the conversation that took place. (By the way, where’s the “Export Conversation” feature for Twitter? I had to do this by HAND.)
@amdev: Eh, sad we expected anything else. Apple (company, not the reviewers who are blamed) is bending devs over w/ horrid policies. :\
@joshkim:Yeah, well if it starts affecting the bottom line, then changes will happen. They’re still selling iPhones like hotcakes, regardless.
@amdev: And that’s their business: hardware, so it will not hit their bottom line for a while (if ever).
@amdev: I mean really, who’s going to design something better in the next 6 months?
@joshkim: Exactly. I love the iPhone. It’s got it’s problems, but it’s the closest thing we got to the JesusPhone.
@joshkim: That’s a very good point. They really truly are a hardware company, with a bit of sprinkling of amazing software that works.
Until Apple actually sees a drop in iPhone sales due to garbage treatments of the iPhone developers, I don’t really forsee a large push in trying to fix something that barely works.
Sidenote: I’m sure Google’s first goal was to develop a useful product, but I wonder if the fallout in the iPhone development community was planned by the Google overlords.
Okay. I'll admit, I did not RTFA. But, will just say, I haven't seen you do in-line commentary for as far as I can remember—commentary tons, just never with quotes. It's a major plus in my book.
whoa…. so I didn't miss it. The feed is just very slow…
Google Reader is a very interesting beast. But then again, I really
haven't posted for a while, and then just recently, had a huge surge
of activity.
The premise being that Google Reader polls at an adaptive rate?
That, and that there seems to be a weird issue about different users
getting the updated posts at different times. Remember when posts
didn't show up in your account, but it did with me? This same thing
happened to me recently when a friend of mine told me that I was
updating like a banshee, but i never saw my own posts until 48 hours
later in one huge blob.