Dan Markham

The point in all this anger, fear, incredulity and hopelessness directed towards Apple, on the part of the iPhone and iPod Touch developer community, as beautifully expressed by Jason Snell in an article over at Macworld (or, if you will, why you, as a “regular Joe” iPhone or iPod Touch user should care about what a bunch of coding monkey developers have to say):

Now you, as a user, may say something along these lines: Why does it matter to me? Maybe these developers are a bunch of spoiled brats, and they should just shut up and keep making money hand over fist from the App Store like those guys who wrote Trism.

If you don’t want to sympathize with developers, let me rephrase it to describe how this will affect users: If developers are afraid to write programs for the iPhone that aren’t games, to-do lists, and tip calculators, for fear that all their hard work will be wasted by a malicious or capricious Apple rejection notice, they will stop writing programs for the platform. And the well of innovative, interesting iPhone software will dry up.

Crystal clear on this end, Apple. Your move.

I can’t wait for Macworld.

Palm developer Steven’s Creek Software vomited out this app for the iPhone/iPod Touch.

The question is: will this app be “accepted” by Apple for inclusion in the AppStore or is UI design going to be a deciding factor in which apps get in and which don’t?

As leery as I am of having one gate-keeper giving the thumbs up or the thumbs down to every app I would be just as leery of having to wade through crap like this to get to the good stuff. Time will tell …

Update: pilkycrc says “no”

Original linkage, as well as the screenshot of this train wreck of a UI, courtesy of Mr. John Gruber.