Rogue Amoeba quits iPhone development

13.11.2009

Perhaps the most important part of Kafasis's post comes at the end, where he states that Rogue Amoeba will be scrapping any plans to develop new iPhone applications for the foreseeable future and that updates to existing applications will also be few and far between. And, just like that, yet another passionate Mac developer walks out of the App Store, frustrated by its inane and inconsistent policies and their heavy-handed implementation.

It's been more than a year since the App Store opened its doors; there are currently more than 100,000 applications that have cumulatively been downloaded more than two billion times. The argument that Apple is still new to this just doesn't fly anymore.

Apple's attempts to fix the App Store in the past year have been lukewarm at best. It's hard to believe that the company that produced the Mac, Mac OS X, the iPod, iPhone, Apple Online Store, and the iTunes Store is incapable of making the App Store work the way it should.