Fraser Speirs is dropping out of new application development on the iPhone, and I don’t blame him:
Apple’s current practice of rejecting certain applications at the final hurdle – submission to the App Store – is disastrous for investor confidence. Developers are investing time and resources in the App Store marketplace and, if developers aren’t confident, they won’t invest in it.
This is something I’ve been struggling with as well. Every time I convince myself that I have a good product idea, another developer goes public with an iPhone application rejection. You’re fooling yourself if you think we’ve heard all of the rejections.
Apple has really screwed this up.