There has been a recent push of developers that have not been so secretive about their unhappiness with the whole vetting process that Apple uses to decide who can have an app in the store and who cannot. While it is generally believed that the denials are not supposed to be disclosed, these things have a way of leaking out and Apple has been getting put under the microscope.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been in the press quite a lot lately for various reasons and it is no wonder that all of this is coming back out again. In the eyes of many developers, the App Store is a contradiction in itself. Apple does not have its own developers working on these applications, but suggests that they have an open policy.

It all seems very welcoming until you hear the number of people that have been refused for one reason or another. It is not

to the point that many major developers of applications are pulling their teams off of iPhone apps and working on other systems such as Blackberry and Droid. While there will be enough start-up companies that will fill the void and there will be no shortage of new apps, it could mean more competition for the iPhone.

Many of these larger companies are set up to literally pump out app after app if need be. While I have no idea what the actual number of apps that have been developed by major tech companies is one would have to imagine that it is pretty significant. How hard can it be to create a similar app for other phones when the programming is basically done? Could these mean a sudden rush of apps that are available for the direct competition? Only time is going to tell on this one but Apple seems to making a few more enemies that friends lately.

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