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App Store Director Revealed to Be Former Fart App Developer
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You seriously can't spot anything wrong with the _Director of App Store_ (in other words someone who should be the very epitome of quality and good taste when it comes apps) dabbling in this sort of thing? or publicly calling a developer "full of sh.t" on his Twitter feed? Really?
Amen there... doubt he would have been hired for the Apple Store retail locations with those postings....
Apple has suffered from enough gaffs to have to brought this guy on IMO of late... This guy only made it worse by deleting his twitter feeds and LinkedIn refs...
So Apple when was this guy really hired?
If Apple really wanted to hire a Director of Applications Technology for the App Store - they could have paid the price to bring on the likes of the guy behind Goodreader, or the guy behind Elements for the iPad - not some low life that wants to pander to those that get their jolliness off of what many of us would consider to be a grade B or C movie
Apple of any company out there should have known the reach of the internet to realize how low this guy will go to gain a buck. Sad for Apple in that regard.
They should have hired that CEO from HP instead LOL
Assuming these are really from him, is the guy who wrote the urine app really someone who should be criticizing Joe Hewitt, who wrote the facebook app?
I'm sorry if I'm missing the importance of pursuing this and revealing it to the public. The poor guy is probably in trouble now and what exactly is he guilty of? Since when did some guy's employment contract (and any violation thereof) become the public's interest?
Just getting tired of the media's incessant search for circus acts during the "dry season" of events to report on. Mosque debate anyone?
Just getting tired of the media's incessant search for circus acts during the "dry season" of events to report on. Mosque debate anyone?
Store is down
Well the store is down..
I'm sorry if I'm missing the importance of pursuing this and revealing it to the public. The poor guy is probably in trouble now and what exactly is he guilty of? Since when did some guy's employment contract (and any violation thereof) become the public's interest?
Just getting tired of the media's incessant search for circus acts during the "dry season" of events to report on. Mosque debate anyone?
Well the store is down..
I would like to support Shoemaker and Apple.
There is nothing wrong in developing those apps. It may be not the best sense of humour, but they do not offend anyone or making fun of someone.
I bet that those apps development was valuable for Shoemaker experience in the domain.
Even more, As far as I can tell, he may not have been developing those apps personally, but someone else from his company GrayNoodle.
It's teenage humour, that's all.
There is nothing wrong in developing those apps. It may be not the best sense of humour, but they do not offend anyone or making fun of someone.
I bet that those apps development was valuable for Shoemaker experience in the domain.
Even more, As far as I can tell, he may not have been developing those apps personally, but someone else from his company GrayNoodle.
It's teenage humour, that's all.
Considering the turnover of the Transformers movies I'm not surprised he has some support.
But there you have it, the guy at the top is a 'piss and fart' guy. Outstanding.
But there you have it, the guy at the top is a 'piss and fart' guy. Outstanding.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMX8L7Yxyfk
Meanwhile I'm sure everyone will stop buying Apple products now.
Meanwhile I'm sure everyone will stop buying Apple products now.
Not at all. The only thing I find wrong is how stuck up most posters that are spewing vitriol over this big pile of nothing are.
That's highly subjective. My wife, for example, would find those apps more offensive than one that tastefully depicts the naked female body. From their description, they are vulgar and crude (and I don't have any intetion to buy them to confirm).
Well, yeah....
I agree with you on that much.... When you start developing software for a new platform, you don't just launch right into it with a full-blown application or arcade game. You just try to learn how to interact with the display and get sounds to play and so forth. Pointless little apps like these are good learning tools for the developer. (Although frankly, I think they should stick to offering such nonsense free of charge .... but hey, if some people are paying for them, that must mean they have value to those individuals. So who am I to judge?)
It sounds to me like Shoemaker would have been wiser not to just delete all references to the stuff on his LinkedIn acct. and so forth. Rather, he should have wrote a brief explanation of why he developed those immature little programs in the first place (and if it was done by others, under his company name - explain THAT too). Just be up-front with people, and it'll go a lot farther than trying to erase your past and hide.....
I agree with you on that much.... When you start developing software for a new platform, you don't just launch right into it with a full-blown application or arcade game. You just try to learn how to interact with the display and get sounds to play and so forth. Pointless little apps like these are good learning tools for the developer. (Although frankly, I think they should stick to offering such nonsense free of charge .... but hey, if some people are paying for them, that must mean they have value to those individuals. So who am I to judge?)
It sounds to me like Shoemaker would have been wiser not to just delete all references to the stuff on his LinkedIn acct. and so forth. Rather, he should have wrote a brief explanation of why he developed those immature little programs in the first place (and if it was done by others, under his company name - explain THAT too). Just be up-front with people, and it'll go a lot farther than trying to erase your past and hide.....
I would like to support Shoemaker and Apple.
There is nothing wrong in developing those apps. It may be not the best sense of humour, but they do not offend anyone or making fun of someone.
I bet that those apps development was valuable for Shoemaker experience in the domain.
Even more, As far as I can tell, he may not have been developing those apps personally, but someone else from his company GrayNoodle.
It's teenage humour, that's all.
Comments like this are silly. How do you even go to nudity from fart apps? Do they hold some similarity to you?
I hope he doesn't do a sh**y job. I know, I know.
Well, I don't think his past apps should bar him from being employed by Apple. Fart apps are synonymous with the App store.
Well, I don't think his past apps should bar him from being employed by Apple. Fart apps are synonymous with the App store.
How does that explain him dissing other developers and revealing information that is supposed to be confidential about these developers (like whether or not they submitted an app) on his twitter account?
It's a matter of interest to those who have invested time and money in developing for the app store, only to find that the process and employees used to monitor the store leave a lot to be desired, the rules are vague and ineffective, and the decisions handed down from on-high are arbitrary and hypocritical in the extreme. Hiring a cretin like this to run their Application Store says it all really.
Apple needs to buck up and take heed of its developers before they start to leave the platform in disgust. There are now plenty of alternatives on the horizon.
Not only should this guy be canned for conflict of interest, he should be canned for horrifically-designed apps.
Hey Phillip, there's a better place for crappy apps like yours: Android.
Or getting hired by Apple
Awfully judgemental of you. Do you have any insight into his performance as an employee or are you just talking out of your biological fart app ?
Duh. Execs employ directors to fulfill their vision. Call it puppetry or call it running a business.