It’s one that’s been told before, but until things change, it needs to keep being told.
no, iphone developers need to take more drastic action to boycott apple's actions than just "telling" the story.
apple needs developers to keep the app store and platform popular and, so far, all of the big developers are singing their tune and continuing to publish new apps and updates, even if they are complaining on their weblogs.
i think if the top iphone developers got together and had the petitioned support of dozens or hundreds of smaller developers, and took some serious action like going to apple headquarters and sitting down with those in charge, they could work to change things.
#1 The biggest developers don't deal with this. You really think EA has to put up with this crap? The Google Voice thing was a highly publicized fiasco, but I'd be willing to bet that sort of treatment of other publicly-traded companies is rare, and even that story probably has much more behind it than we know.
#2. There's so much money to be made that if half the small developers quit, the rest will simply fill the void. It's the same game theory concept that ensures the tuna will be fished into extinction. It would be in everyone's long term best interest to band together and make Apple fix their policies, but in each individual's short term interest to take the money and run.
*Totally did not notice when I said that that the very next article on the list was about the extinction of the Bluefin Tuna. Scary.
Point number 2 is what is the biggest problem. Unless there is an all-at-once unanimous decision to stop working on the iPhone platform by atleast 80pc of developers, nothing is going to change. The only way that can happen is if someone builds a phone better than the iPhone, and offers developers some kind of massive incentive to shift (which is not likely going to happen in the near future).
that was kind of my point. ea knows very well what other developers are going through, but until they get an app rejected, they're not going to do anything about it. i was suggesting that these top developers stand up and use their pull to convince apple to change on behalf of all iphone developers.
Actually my thought was more along the game theoretical lines than that article. The Bluefin Tuna is screwed because each country's long-term incentive is to sustain its population and severely curtail fishing. Unless every country but one does that, of course, leaving the country that crosses the picket line to make billions of dollars at the expense of the others.
no, iphone developers need to take more drastic action to boycott apple's actions than just "telling" the story.
apple needs developers to keep the app store and platform popular and, so far, all of the big developers are singing their tune and continuing to publish new apps and updates, even if they are complaining on their weblogs.
i think if the top iphone developers got together and had the petitioned support of dozens or hundreds of smaller developers, and took some serious action like going to apple headquarters and sitting down with those in charge, they could work to change things.