12 Nov
Facebook iPhone App Developer Quits, Thanks To Apple Policies
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Loading ...Thanks to Apple’s adamant policies, a Facebook Developer named Joe Hewitt who was the main guy behind Facebook’s iPhone app, has quit working with Apple’s platform. This news was covered by TechCrunch earlier today. He passed off the project to another developer and called it quits.
“My decision to stop iPhone development has had everything to do with Apple’s policies,” Hewitt says. “I respect their right to manage their platform however they want, however I am philosophically opposed to the existence of their review process. I am very concerned that they are setting a horrible precedent for other software platforms, and soon gatekeepers will start infesting the lives of every software developer.”
TechCrunch goes on to say that Hewitt’s move is a big deal, because he has essentially been the one-man show behind the iPhone’s most popular application of all time.
Hewitt has been quite vocal about his opposition to Apple’s ridiculous App Store approval policies — in a post last August, he wrote that “the review process needs to be eliminated completely.” And to be clear, Hewitt is still at Facebook, though he can’t talk about the next project he’s working on.
[via - TechCrunch]
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