iPhone app developer quits over approval process

Paul Kafasis

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Apple's App Store boasts more than 100,000 apps and more than 2 billion downloads, but not all of its developers are as happy as some would think. One well-respected dev cheap puma shoes eloper decided to call it quits.

Citing his frustration with the App Store approval process, Rogue Amoeba's Paul Kafasis said on his company's blog last week that he is throwing in the towel on iPhone app devel suede puma sneakers opment after an exasperating three-and-a-half month app approval.

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"Rogue Amoeba no longer has any plans for additional iPhone applications, and updates to our existing iPhone applicati cheap juicy couture necklaces ons will likely be rare," said Kafasis. "The iPhone platform had great promise, but that promise is not enough, so we're focusing on the Mac."

Kafasis' growin Jordan retro 19 g irritation with the App Store centers around an update he wanted to release for his Airfoil Speakers Touch iPhone app. The app allows users to receive audio from any Mac or Windows-based PC and the  Jordan retro 4 update fixed some issues with audio sync.

However, Apple rejected the update because it used images of Apple products in the app. The way Airfoil Speakers Touch works is that it shows you graphi adidas samoa cally what machine and application your audio is coming from on the host computer. If you are connected to an iMac running Safari, that's what will show up in the iPhone app.

This isn't s juicy couture totes omething that Kafasis hacked together--this functionality is freely available as part of Mac OS X for developers to use. In fact, Airfoil Speakers Touch 1.0 was still in the App Sto jordan cp re, approved by Apple, with these images.

"The only thing Apple's process was doing was preventing a needed bug-fix from reaching the hands of our mutual customers," said Kafasis.

(Credit: Rogue Amoeba)

In o Jordan retro 8 rder to get the fixes to customers, Kafasis took out all of the offending images and replaced them with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) logo. If you tap on the logo, you will be taken to a page  nike air max tailwind explaining why the images have been removed.

Kafasis is asking users to consider donating to the EFF. While the organization isn't involved with his decision to place  air max 87 its logo in his app, "if Apple is to change, it may take such an organization to make it happen," he said.

As a developer, Kafasis also wants users to know the frustrations they have to g Jordan retro 9 o through to put out software. "We wanted to ship a simple bug fix, and it took almost four months of slow replies, delays, and dithering by Apple," said Kafasis. "All the while, our buggy, and supposedl puma mostro shoes y infringing version, was still available. There's no other word for that but 'broken.'"

This isn't the end of the road for Kafasis. A Mac developer for 11 years, he will re-focus his  puma speed cat  efforts back to his many popular Mac applications and continue developing for that platform.

Jim Dalrymple has followed Apple and the Mac industry for the last 15 years, first as part of MacCentral and then in vario 

 us positions at Macworld. Jim also writes about the professional audio market, examining the best ways to record music using a Macintosh. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CN 

 ET. He currently runs The Loop. You can follow him on Twitter @jdalrymple. Topics: iPhone Tags: iPhone, App Store, approval process Share: Digg Del.icio.us Reddit Facebook Twitter