Another developer is opting out of the App Store after the recent changes to the service's policies. The latest, TinyGrab, joins Rhapsody and Readability on the sidelines.
Rhapsody said it was going as soon as it heard the new policies; Readability saw its app rejected from the App Store and decided it would stick to Web apps for now.
TinyGrab's announcement comes via a Feb. 21 blog post. In it, they minced no words. They called Apple's news policies the company's "new greedy model."
Aside from the fact that Apple wants to take a 30 percent cut of subscriptions, which really sucks for many developers, TinyGrab lists a number of reasons why their app will never be approved by Apple, and why changing their app to match Apple's policies is an insurmountable obstacle.
It's unclear if this is truly the case, but not only is TinyGrab dumping the App Store, they say they are dumping the Mac App Store, as well. Of course, Apple can't stop folks from buying Mac OS X apps and installing them on a computer. If it wasn't changing years of past history, they probably would try, as the App Store has worked so well for them.
While TinyGrab is relatively unknown, DropBox is not. Cult of Mac points out that DropBox uses the same sort of policies that TinyGrab does to monetize its product. If Apple is going to pay attention to these numerous "revolts" by developers, it's going to take a large scale app leaving the store to do so, one that creates an end user uproar as well.
It's not as if Apple has never listened in terms of the App Store. After all, they eventually caved and both detailed their approval rules and allowed Google Voice apps into the App Store. It's going to take a struggle, however.
Rhapsody said it was going as soon as it heard the new policies; Readability saw its app rejected from the App Store and decided it would stick to Web apps for now.
TinyGrab's announcement comes via a Feb. 21 blog post. In it, they minced no words. They called Apple's news policies the company's "new greedy model."
Aside from the fact that Apple wants to take a 30 percent cut of subscriptions, which really sucks for many developers, TinyGrab lists a number of reasons why their app will never be approved by Apple, and why changing their app to match Apple's policies is an insurmountable obstacle.
It's unclear if this is truly the case, but not only is TinyGrab dumping the App Store, they say they are dumping the Mac App Store, as well. Of course, Apple can't stop folks from buying Mac OS X apps and installing them on a computer. If it wasn't changing years of past history, they probably would try, as the App Store has worked so well for them.
While TinyGrab is relatively unknown, DropBox is not. Cult of Mac points out that DropBox uses the same sort of policies that TinyGrab does to monetize its product. If Apple is going to pay attention to these numerous "revolts" by developers, it's going to take a large scale app leaving the store to do so, one that creates an end user uproar as well.
It's not as if Apple has never listened in terms of the App Store. After all, they eventually caved and both detailed their approval rules and allowed Google Voice apps into the App Store. It's going to take a struggle, however.
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