Apple App Process Shows Lack of Coherence Once Again

2 news stories broke today that again made Apple’s App application approval process for its iphone look completely retarded

First we found out that Apple O.K.’d a  99 cent Google Wave app fir the iphone. Basically all this app does is allow you to access from your iphone, even though it was proven over a month ago that you can simply go to it on your mobile browser for free. The app in fact was not even made or endoresed by Google. It was created by Clapps, a small games developer for the iphone and ipod touch. Basically the only reasoning I can see behind this app being approved at all is that Apple wanted to find some way to make money off of the over-hyped Google Wave. The only reason I think they chose to do this instead of trying to straight-up block access of Google Wave on iphones is that they may have actually learned from how ridiculous they have looked throughout their war with Palm to keep them from being able to sync itunes on their products.

This also brings to mind the most ridiculous approved app of all-time, “Asian Boobs”. I don’t know how they are able to keep a straight face doing this.

Today we all realized that the Facebook app on our iphones was broken for everybody and that our social lives hadn’t actually just fallen to pieces. Joe Hewitts recent outrage at and departure from the strenuous application process have left the rest of us shaking our heads. If a professional software engineer who creates updates for the extremely popular Facebook app can be turned down, what are the chances that an amateur programmer’s app that he/she spent six months developing will make the cut. Apple really needs to realize how big of a deal this is and fix it isntead of just making newer versions of its phone every six months to try and draw our attention away

Bunyan