If anyone is questioning why apps are exploding on the Android Platform I think we have a hint. The Register is reporting that an App names MyFrame has been removed from the app store. If you have been following any tech site for the last few months there is no surprise that another app has been shown the door. But what is surprising is the new reason.
The latest reason for app expulsion is if your iPhone or iPad application is behaving like “widgets” and “creating their own desktops,”. While this really suck for the developer, I have to laugh at him as he is really eating crow. On the developers blog he once admonished the media for blowing the app removal stories out of proportion. in an article titled Sorry Media, But Apple Isn’t Evil the developer writes
If there’s one thing I like doing, it’s commenting on Apple’s approval process. I have always been amused by the amount of media hype and attention that goes with it, and how people just assume that we developers must be such an oppressed people, and isn’t it terrible dealing with Apple? Do we have to check our souls at the door? How can we possible approve of and work for such a tyrannical regime? Even the questions in your email are, to be fair, quite leading.
Now his latest post starts
A month ago I wrote a blog post about how Apple were not actually evil, because I was getting sick of all the media hype and bashing that was going on. Little did I know that a month later that blog post would come back and smack me in the face
Now of course there was an email sent to Steve and the response back was
We are not allowing apps that create their own desktops. Sorry.
Sent from my iPad
Too funny!
I am just wondering how long will it be before developers get fed up and stop creating apps for Apple.