Did you know that Apple's EULA forces you to shutup when it comes to criticizing Apple? I can't really quote or provide references because anyone who signs the developer agreement is prohibited from making it public (sure a version exists but I don't see the point). And my simple mind wonders how in the world is it anyway connected to the App I am writing. A parallel would be for U.S government to demand that you give away freedom of speech right as a pre-condition to getting the citizenship.
To summarize, Reddit.com has decided to stop investing in building the App for the iPhone (or other platforms) and rather focus their energy on making their mobile web experience better on all platforms. They quoted a few reasons which echos the general theme of this blog. They are
- "...or that we had to sign a EULA to use them (that incidentally says we can't criticize them publicly -- oh well)"
- or that by putting energy to support an iphone app we are neglecting android, blackberry, and even palm users (they still exist!) let alone an ipad version.
- Mostly, dealing with the app store is a royal pain in the ass. ...As such, our development is based around the radical notion that we can deploy bugfixes to site problems in less than a fortnight. This is not the case with the app store (quite the contrary actually). We've had too many legitimate bugfixes rejected from the store because the reviewer of the patch happened to check on a day when someone made a poop joke or our thumbnailer did a particularly good job detecting the raciest image on the page. Nevermind pointing out that the content for the app comes from the web and that we didn't put the poop joke in there just for them, but all this has been said before and will be said again.
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