Hacker News Reader

Comment by pstevensza | Hacker News Reader

Some viable arguments lost in a tirade of hysteria. I've never written an app for the iPhone/iPad, so I have no first hand experience with the approval/rejection nonsense. I do however own an iPhone, and I love the fact that I can expect a certain level of quality in the applications I buy. One thing that makes me snicker about the article in question is the purpose of the app. Why the hell would you want to waste an iPad on using it as a picture frame? With Twitter overlays? Anyway, each to their own. My main point is that so long as the people bitching publicly are gibbering loons like the idiot-in-charge at the linked blog, very few folk will pay attention.

View on HN

Why the hell would you want to waste an iPad on using it as a picture frame?

Why the hell would you want to use an iPhone to make farts? But the app store is full of them.

I, as an iPhone developer (reconsidering the thing every time I read news like this one) don't see all that quality in the app store. Sure, there are a lot of high quality apps, but there is a lot of garbage that just piles up hiding worthy applications.

And the iPad appstore app is hideous for browsing, so you have to wade through all the crappy apps to see anything, and whenever you look at an app, you get put back to the beginning of the category.

What does your opinion of this app have to do with the app store approval process?

How does rejecting this app help Apple ensure overall quality?

Downvoted. This article (and the one from the developer that was posted yesterday) indicate that this isn't about quality. By all accounts it was a well-done app. Rather, the problem was that Apple dislikes its functionality -- but in a way that they refuse to define, so the developer has no way to "fix" it.

> Why the hell would you want to waste an iPad on using it as a picture frame? With Twitter overlays?

When you're at your laptop/desktop computer on your desk. It's handy to have a dedicated display for twitter/other dashboards, if you like keeping up on that stuff while you work.

"Why the hell would you want to waste an iPad on using it as a picture frame?"

Camouflage, perhaps - if thieves enter the house, they might leave the "crappy picture frame" behind.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com