App Store’s Folly

With the recent blacklists of Podcaster and other App Store apps, one wonders what happens to the developer. As apps cannot be developed in a day, app programmers lose valuble time and resources in building apps that get pulled from the store. I see several glaring mistakes here. Would you, for example, attempt to develop another app if one app of yours is pulled down (assuming that you took over a month)? The issue here is that talented app developers will be reluctant to create another one, thus their potential is lost forever to the iPhone/iPod Touch world. Apple needs to revise their app guidelines and standards, for there are just too many loopholes right now. Other than having Apple revise their guidelines, hopes are quite dim for us users, because we will always be demanding apps and Apple knows that just too well. Their monopolic and anti-competitive actions can’t really be dealt with easily.