readwriteweb.com — Over the weekend, a debate raged across the tech blogosphere concerning the risks involved in developing for the iPhone platform. The discussion began with Fraser Spears, who claims he will never write another iPhone app for the App Store as it exists today. Dave Winer soon followed up, agreeing that the iPhone was an unreliable platform.
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c99koderSep 15, 2008
No. You'd still need to jailbreak in order to run Installer, as Installer needs the ability to write to the iPhone filesystem -- which official applications cannot do.
diggmaddySep 15, 2008
Exactly. This and AT&T are one of the primary reason I've not bought an iPhone and am holding my breath for the HTC Dream/T-Mobile G1
Closed AccountSep 15, 2008
Yeah – there's always an understandable risk – I just hate seeing developers waste time on a good app that gets rejected for unclear reasons. I'd be fine with all of this if there were some sort of "Apple's Big Book of Why We Won't Sell Your Apps" but there isn't at all. Not to mention the other retarded legal documents that prevent developers from talking to EACH OTHER about developing apps for the iPhone. It's just some big clusterf**k. Kind of a similar situation was happening with the Ghostbusters video game recently, they basically had the game completed – and then no distributor for it.
Closed AccountSep 15, 2008
That *had* to hurt.Dugg up.
baybluangelSep 16, 2008
Can you host your own "Ad Hoc" redistribution on your own machine? That way you could install apps whenever you wanted to.
troyeSep 16, 2008
You must first register for 100 iPhone licenses - from the article. Then, you can host your own server to dish out apps.
r3zonanceSep 18, 2008
If he doesn't call it a donation he'll be violating the developer T&Cs and will get his keys revoked DEFINITELY.
r3zonanceSep 18, 2008
"He's not thwarting their system - their system just doesn't work."Their system works for every other app on the store.