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  • The Honeymoon is Over

    Posted on July 30th, 2009 steve Comments

    Apple has had a year, but the glacial pace of improvements to the App Store haven’t done anything to fix the fundamental problems with running a business focused on iPhone application development. A year grace period is enough and now it looks like the honeymoon is over.

    Marco Arment: Serious Doubts and App Store Adds Search Keyword Fields for Apps
    Riverturn: There’s No App for That
    Justin Williams: Where Do I Sign Up?
    Layton Duncan: The Emperor’s New Clothes

    Developer sentiment has shifted. These feelings have been there for a long time, but now people are blogging more about the problems and they are getting linked by more highly prominent sites. It’s only a matter of time before the bigger names in indie development chip in, too.

    I can easily see a day where all that is available are garbage, throw-away 99ยข apps and apps from bigger companies who feel they “have” to be present on the App Store.

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