It’s been a hell of a rough week for the iPhone App Store; at least in terms of image and PR amongst the developer community. We’ve seen two very high profile developers abandon their development efforts for the iPhone OS platform – first Joe Hewitt, who was previously the lead developer of Facebook’s iPhone app, and then Rogue Amoeba, well known and respected software publishers for Mac OS X and the iPhone.
Both have heavily criticized the App Store reviews process and cited it as a reason for turning their back on the iPhone OS platform – and have also argued strongly for developers to be given the ability to get apps into the store without any need for Apple’s approval.
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