Apple is being stupid.
Noted it in the Appleseed blog, but let me say it again, given news about yet another dead app: I cannot imagine why any developer, other than either nothing-to-lose hobbyists or huge companies with sufficient legal clout, would ever want to write an iPhone application.
That Apple can - and has been lately demonstrating its ability to - shitcan all your work only after you've pushed it all the way through its 1.0 release is utterly outrageous, especially since the iPhone OS doesn't allow software to be published through any other route. Apple may have manually rubbed out only a handful of apps lately, but in doing so they've obliterated countless more, as developers figure en masse that they've got better things to do with their time than gamble that Apple won't randomly decide to neutralize weeks or months of work.
That Apple can - and has been lately demonstrating its ability to - shitcan all your work only after you've pushed it all the way through its 1.0 release is utterly outrageous, especially since the iPhone OS doesn't allow software to be published through any other route. Apple may have manually rubbed out only a handful of apps lately, but in doing so they've obliterated countless more, as developers figure en masse that they've got better things to do with their time than gamble that Apple won't randomly decide to neutralize weeks or months of work.