iPhone developer rejection letter mass mailing

Money in an unmarked envelope for any approved iPhone developer willing to create a branded app, or just an uber developer, adam {at} fat-man-collective.com

I'm confused about what all comes in the $99 program... they don't actually give you a phone do they? It just enables you to test on a phone?

iPhone SDK Rejection Explained!
http://planet-iphones.com/forums/index.php?topic=1498.0

I applied and haven't been accepted *or* put in limbo yet. (I very much doubt there'll be problem for someone who has developed a good iPhone app to get a certificate.)

Folks need to get over themselves. Even if you get one, it's not a rejection letter, it's just a "we can't handle all of you at once, hang in there" letter.

I've got 100 invites to the beta!!

If you want one, email me at callthewhaaaaambulance (at) wantcheesewiththatwhine?.com

Marcos El Malo
Cruel Jokes Unlimited

Hi,

I've folowed the iPhone SDK launch and I can only shake my head.
So I decided to let free my thoughts about it.

Apple originally didn't wanted to have 3rd party Apps on the iPhone.
Web 2.0 is all what you get. Bullshit said the developer community.
The iPhone was hacked and thousands of more or less useful app's
where created over night.

Well this is interesting as an experiment but for commercial
developer use this is not solid ground because you can not
safely assume everoyne has a jailbreaked iPhone.
At least it had pushed Apple to release an official SDK.

We have awaited the offical SDK with tension.
Our goal was to solve the most burning problems of the iPhone
in the european market which Apple has simply forgot to solve
because they have no clue how advanced europe is in using
mobile telephony. We have identified the following hotspots:


- MMS
- Bluetooth modem
- Bluetooth filetransfer (OBEX)
- Bluetooth sync
- Accessing or importing adressbook from SIM card
- SCTP Support for applications.

While investigating those solutions we have faced the wall
at all times.

1. You can build your application but you cant run it on the iPhone.
I have nowhere seen how you get this "special" key and neither
how you get and install it.
A simple error -34 is all you are going to see.

2. A lot of things use reuseable code. Thats what dynamic libraries
are there for. The SDK can not build any shared libraries.
Ok you can copy all code into the app but thats not the idea.
Our WAP stack project is killed because of this.

3. Background daemons are not permitted
So no daemon who listens to bluetooth filetransfers, synchs
or functions as a modem.
bluetooth projects are killed because of this.

4. Kernel exteions are not permitted
this kills SCTP. A fantastic network protocol which would
be perfect to be used on the iPhone. SCTP supports
seamless handover between multipe IP connections. So you
could start downloading stuff on WLAN and continue to do so
over EDGE/GPRS without any interruption on application level.
Linux has it, Solaris has it, HP Unix has it, Windows has it.
MacOS X hasnt. There's a solution for desktop MacOS X but its
kernel dependent as it has to use an unsupported API to install
a protocol above IP (next to UDP and TCP). Apple
has told me they will support it. Maybe in 10.4.8 but mabye
only in 10.5. Well we are at 10.5.2 now and there is still
no corresponding API which was promised at WWDC 2004, 2005 and
WWDC 2006.

5. There is no API to work with SMS
This means you can not receive SMS to be dealt with inside
an application. So no WAP push or MMS notification can be handled!
MMS project killed.
Chess via SMS killed.

6. The sandbox does disallow us from using any hardware directly.
So importing from the SIM card? dont even think about it.
Project killed.


Now what does this mean? My project for the 6 "most wanted features"
have been killed. So I can start developing another Tetris
and stay in line with 192764652 other developers doing the same.
And of course i have to sell it at the same place as the others.
How can a buyer decide which tetris to take? Well it means
Apple will be the judge at the end of who gets business and who
doesnt.

I consider the requirement to sell via iTunes store as pure offense.
There are many european countries who dont evne have a iTunes store yet.
There are most european iTunes store who don't have Videos or TV offers.
It will take dozens of years until there will be a iTunes store in every
european country being able to sell app's.

Also there's lots of other places people look for apps.
Handango, Kagi or similar platforms. So why should I give 30% of my
revenue to Apple so I'm locked into their platform where no one looks
and my market is limited?

And while we talk about the market: If i look how many iPhones have been
sold in Germany and compare the population of Germany to Switzerland,
it would mean in the first 1-2 months there would be about 7000 iphones
sold if its launched in Switzerland one day. If I compare this figure
to the information of Swisscom moble saying that they have 15'000
subscribers using an iPhone in their network, I must say that the
market of the "official" iPhones will be the minority for a long time.

My personal opinion is the marketing manager for iPhone should get kicked.
He has no idea on how europe works with mobile phones. Adopting US views
don't work

i now declare this issue moot, and this thread lame. thank you everyone for participating in this (improbably good-intentioned) riling up of a very sensitive demographic of computer professionals and whiny somethingorothers.

i seem to notice a distinct LACK OF RESPONSE FROM TUAW on the matter of the... inflammatory wording in this title and it seems to illustrate how purposeful this wording was. other posts are edited within minutes of someone pointing out mistakes or giving feedback and updates on the status. this post remains unchanged and still leads people here to freak out and get stressed.

in general, stress is not good for humans. don't you care about our well-being, tuaw staff?

OMG he's serious......

How about get together for a class-action law suite?
Are you in?

Steve lied, he never loved me, just used me for an extra $200 at launch. Now i want to give him more and he wants nothing to do with me. I feel so cheap and used and i need my fix, c'mon apple, i just need more...