Copyright 2004 by M. Uli Kusterer Tue, 30 Dec 1969 07:58:58 GMT Comments on article blog-more-on-appstore-censorship at Zathras.de http://www.zathras.de/angelweb/blog-more-on-appstore-censorship.htm witness_dot_of_dot_teachtext_at_gmx_dot_net (M. Uli Kusterer) witness_dot_of_dot_teachtext_at_gmx_dot_net (M. Uli Kusterer) en-us http://www.zathras.de/angelweb/blog-more-on-appstore-censorship.htm#comment3 http://www.zathras.de/angelweb/blog-more-on-appstore-censorship.htm#comment3 Uli Kusterer writes:
Rafael, good point. And there are also applications that used to be available for Mac, then moved away for greener pastures when the Mac got bad, and are still quite healthy (and probably would be even if Apple had gone out of business in the 90ies).
http://www.zathras.de/angelweb/blog-more-on-appstore-censorship.htm#comment2 http://www.zathras.de/angelweb/blog-more-on-appstore-censorship.htm#comment2 Rafael Bugajewski writes:
While I agree with almost all of your points I disagree with the security argumentation. Going out of business is not the only reason for discontinuing an application. A company can also decide to not support an app anymore out of different reasons like less profit or changes in their goals (like new products) and this is - at least from my point of view - the most common factor. Apple and also other big companies stopped to develop a lot of products in the past and this is just normal behavior. So at the end it doesn't make a huge difference if a company goes away or discontinues product development.
http://www.zathras.de/angelweb/blog-more-on-appstore-censorship.htm#comment1 http://www.zathras.de/angelweb/blog-more-on-appstore-censorship.htm#comment1 Ross Carter writes:
For a contrary viewpoint, see my article at http://rosscarter.com/2008/219.html

I wrote that before the Podcaster situation cropped up, and I freely admit that my position might not be supportable as incidents continue to accrue; indeed, the next-to-last paragraph is already out of date. However, I think it must be said that writing a set of rules is far more difficult than most commenters realize. People complain today that there are no rules. Providing rules will not stop the complaints; it will instead provoke complaints about the rules.