The iPhone Economy: Are hobbyist developers left behind
With the introduction of the AppStore, Apple will be providing exposure for thousand of small iPhone developers, for their products and services while at the same time being the regulator of the quality of what is offered.
This situation will bring us more professional and well designed softwares and a richer user experience, but this could put a stop to hobbyist iphone developers that may not qualify to Apple Standards but have a good solution in their hands or any adult content creators that are out automatically because of the rejection.
Apple must guarantee that the end judgements are made by the user, providing the platform and the tools for users to give qualification to any iphone or ipod touch solution. It won’t be nice to have your program rejected because it doesn’t meet Apple Standard, without having the chance of being evaluated by the public. This could turn Apple into the iPhone Big Brother, who determines what is and what is not interesting for the end user.
Apple is smart enough and I bet that this situation will be iron out before the Appstore hits the mainstream, giving the opportunity to thousands of hobbyist developers, that are the real motor behind the iPhone success, there is not a major application that had have the same level of aceptation of those games emulation hacks, nor any major software company that can compete with speed and commitment of those underground developers that have spent hours doing research to bring us the most crazy application ideas without the SDK, what made the development even harder for everybody.
Apple could provide a Red Sticker Section for all those hacks and mature audicence content with a Non Programmer Left Behind, that guarantees exposure to everybody.
It is understandable that Apple guarantees and protects the user experience blocking malicious applications providing a signature for each solution, but it won’t be possible for any games emulator or any other hack to be at the AppStore because the violate some copyrights and you know what, in some form, emulation is what is driving a big chunk of iPhone users.





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