Apple’s iPhone Developer profile video rocks
“We’ve actually spent some time working with other platforms. It’s a night and day difference. They’re more difficult for the user, they don’t have the power or the tools available. They don’t have the distribution network. They don’t have the standards, both in hardware or software,” — Calvin Carter, Bottle Rocket Apps, creators of NPR for iPad.
And, in case you didn’t catch it, the message stashed not so subtly between the lines is, “Yeah, developing for Android sucks.”
Don’t believe it? Just ask a Droid Eres owner that’s less than half way through his contract if he’s looking forward to Android 2.2 Froyo (and all of the developers — especially the Flash guys — waiting for him to upgrade)…
What’s your take?
iPhone Developer Profiles via apfeltouchNET
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OMG there could not be more truth. The droid market is the worst developer distribution I have ever worked with. One min I am way up the next my apps cannot even be found, buried below the waves of crap that people upload.
At first I thought no way I want Apple acting like a god over who gets to publish an app, now I think it’s the only way. I see their point in that my app working badly makes their phone look bad. On the flip side the tools they give and the strict approval process keeps me from looking bad as well.
It won’t be long before someone takes over the droid market and controls it like Apple or it will slowly be lowered to irrelevance.
And death to the companies of android hardware that cannot be upgraded or will run one app and not another.
I really want to know how what Google offers is anything different from what MS did for the last 20 years. But good luck to them. Have fun moving that monolithic, horizontally integrate monstrosity.
Android = Fragmented mess.
Android is a mobile OS built for the purpose of distributing ads for Google. No real vision involved except to get free Android into as many hands as possible and blitz users with ads. Nothing that Apple and iPhone need to be concerned with. Any developer that doesn’t like Apple’s mobile policies should go to Android and have a nice life. The big money is going to be for those talented developers that stay with Apple. I want iOS kept closed tight without outside interference from third parties mainly concerned about their own agenda. If a closed ecosystem limits total market share then so be it. It’s better that the quality and user experience be kept high as possible through tight control.
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