Apple makes two great iPhone moves

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The past few days have seen Apple make two incredibly positive strides when it comes to iPhone development. If you haven’t heard, last weekend the company limited App Store reviews to those who had downloaded the product in question. And Wednesday the company announced that the blanket secrecy agreement on iPhone development was being lifted.

What Jason said — I’m in complete agreement here.

And for what it’s worth, while I’ve been somewhat noisy about ending up the last person in the universe without an iPhone, our current phone contracts came up for renewal this last week, and yesterday, I ordered our new phones.

Yup. 16G black iPhone G3. They’re evidently on Fedex trucks as I type, and they’ll arrive tomorrow. Which tells you ultimately what I think about all of this. Happy to finally be moving to a modern phone again, although the Blackjack has given yeoman service with no real complaints, other than state of the art moved radically (thanks to iPhone) since we bought them.

I did — honestly — think about Taking a Stand and refusing to upgrade until Apple did something about something or other, but heck, would anyone really care? Not really. Posturing for posturing’s sake I’ll leave to someone else (this time). So much for me taking credit for these latest changes, though…

Apple’s fixed the major issues with the developer situation now, so hopefully the developers will get back to making really great stuff for iPhone (which I’ll now start buying…). Still some more minor issues, but I wonder if these will follow, now that the 500 pound gorilla’s been caged.

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  • http://fredsmythe.com Chris Lemon

    I don’t think you’re out of the woods until Apple cuts it the hell out with the “oh, that app competes with the crappy app we wrote, and we don’t want people realizing it’s crappy and so you don’t get to put it on the Store” policy.
    Yes, it’s all fine and good that devs can step forward and say “Apple put the smackdown on our app for idiotic reasons” without getting sued, but it doesn’t change the fact that you and I still can’t get the app.
    If I could trust that data in an app installed via Jailbreak were reliable and wouldn’t disappear with the next firmware upgrade, I wouldn’t care. I can’t, so I do.