I think it's staggering actually

they are very specific about what you can and can't do (throw things out with one call to an external API eg), they take a huge royalty chunk, they can make up the rules as they go along.

I can see how it works in our case where we use it as a promotional product, but I wouldn't have any confidence in putting all my eggs in that basket.

Posted By: camcan on February 19th 2010 at 09:58:12

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bad news ifooners (General Chat) - camcan, Feb 19, 09:21:26
- Well, I agree tha it is a good idea to get the hard porn out of the app store. However, it (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Feb 19, 09:46:49
  - yeah but at the end of the day (General Chat) - SCC 28, Feb 19, 10:06:03
    - Yeah, I?d rather see people making money of selling useless image viewers with naked women (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Feb 19, 10:12:13
  - I think it's staggering actually (General Chat) - camcan, Feb 19, 09:58:12
    - In general, I think it means that the quality of applications (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Feb 19, 10:14:31
      - It might be THEIR platform, but it?s MY phone; I should be able to put whatever the hell I (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Feb 19, 10:16:57
        
        You see no advantage in Apple's policy? (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Feb 19, 10:20:59
        
        to step away from my simple copying and pasting from the linked story... (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Feb 19, 10:30:02
        
        Terrible analogy (n/m) (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Feb 19, 10:53:50
        
        if only i had iAnalogy... (n/m) (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Feb 19, 11:01:54
      - Christ! That was badly written; but you get the drift... (n/m) (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Feb 19, 10:16:37
        
        I have to say (General Chat) - camcan, Feb 19, 10:19:29
        
        I didn't imagine they had an army of highly paid human quality engineers (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Feb 19, 10:49:04
        
        is all this stuff 'shit' though? (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Feb 19, 11:00:34
        
        I'm talking generally; not about tacky smut (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Feb 19, 11:15:35
        
        but the point is one man's shit is another man's hours of entertainment (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Feb 19, 11:26:18
    - I might not write the iWrath app after all. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Feb 19, 10:02:20
      - With any luck those nagging health issues will take Mr. Jobs to the hereafter and this typ (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Feb 19, 10:07:30
- "I?m gonna piss Apple off just by submitting ?Jailbroken Android Porn? to the app store. " (General Chat) - Tombs, Feb 19, 09:24:42

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