Apple’s App Store Director Sells His Own Fart Apps
wired.com
wired.com
http://www.macrumors.com/2008/08/01/iphone-app-store-numbers...
"Apple’s policy allows for employees to have apps on the App Store if they’re developed and published prior to their start at Apple."
[1] http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-wants-employees...
the danger of using auto-follow services on twitter.
I might believe it if the escorts were from San Francisco, LA, Vegas. But India? It seems unlikely that he's a frequent visitor to India in a context where he'd want to link escort services in two cities there.
Please. Web savvy fail. Most likely somebody with a 'circle jerk' ring of bogus escort sites spammed twitter accounts and hit this guy's, and he didn't pay attention to it.
Fart apps are essentially the poster child for "crapware" in the App Store. Anytime someone wants to criticize the App Store, they will probably point to apps like the ones he's making. But while Apple constantly expands its list of unacceptable things (the programming language ban is merely the most ridiculous, not the only the thing on the list), fart apps remain the one genre that seems untouchable. It's a messed up state of affairs.
There is literally no evidence to support the latter interpretation.
I doubt the ObjC/C++/C requirement was his call. He may be in charge of enforcing it, but something like that would have come from higher up.
But maybe this is exactly the kind of person one would want in charge of the decision-making process? ...someone who knows that if the content bar is set too high, he would never have gotten into the app store -- and his current job.
That being said, I don't know if this character assassination by Wired is warranted. It is just some idiot selling fart apps. Not exactly newsworthy.
Except that he is now on the othe side of the table.
Regarding Shoemaker, maybe Apple hired him to direct the App Store because he can run a massive online marketplace, and not because he's a talented or creative app developer.
A great developer might be wasted at the position Apple were hiring him for but a little experience might be quite good, so the first point could even be positive for him. Whether that second point is true can more or less be sorted out in the interview.
Are you really confident in assessing this person if this is the only thing you know about him? I’m certainly not.
Name one app that has existed on the App Store that Apple banned because they released their own version of it, and charged for it.
I trust that they want me to succeed to they get 30% of a much larger number.
They banned rss viewers for a while.
They have not allowed in alternate browsers.
What difference does it make if they charge for it or not?
I don't think there is. There is a lot of stuff you can do with UIWebView, which is what all those other apps are doing, like blocking ads, adding tabs, storing stuff offline.
Those are ludicrous statements, searching for 'rss reader' or 'web browser' returns a myriad of results on the app store.
You are just repeating the first thing you see, rather than doing any research into the matter. There is loads of information out there about problems with Apple banning stuff, if anyone cares enough to actually look.
Which is what happened in this case.
Obvious stuff. Never underestimate the power of well-established special interest groups. There's no powerful interest group against farts so of course it's not considered "objectionable", unlike religion.