Steve Jobs Reportedly Intervenes in iPhone Application Approval

[Compile 'em all]

That private API will be public in an upcoming SDK update.

 

[synth3tik]

I think this really highlights the problems with the approval process.

Basically,

Apple will deny your app approval,
you cry and moan to Jobs',
You app gets approved.

 

[retroneo]

Approving this isn't fair to Qik, who have been trying to use that same API for ages to bring the core functionality of their product to the iPhone.

 

[MattyMac]

what a pimp

 

[macfan881]

Steve also replied on a email about iCal edititng on ipod touches before 1.2 i think the update was that allowed it.


https://www.macrumors.com/2007/10/08/ipod-touch-calendar-to-get-add-edit-functionality/

 

[Kwill]

Based on user comments

It could have been rejected because it doesn't work as advertised.

 

[LethalWolfe]

Well, he was right. Most new "consumer" HD camcorder do use USB 2. There is a lot less need for Firewire on the "Macbook" line. They brought back Firewire on the 13" "Macbook Pro" to differentiate it from the Macbook line.

Actually he (assuming he really wrote that and not an underling) was wrong. The statement, from 2008, that all new HD consumer cameras from the past few years use USB is incorrect. In fact the most popular cameras between '05/'06 and '08 were tape based ones from Sony and Canon. 2009 is probably going to be seen as the year that tape based consumer (and prosumer as well) cameras really started to decline.

That statement also ignores the fact that all of Apples editing software requires that AVCD be converted into a larger codec that needs bigger, faster HDDs and a higher bandwidth connection than USB 2.0 can reliably provide.


Lethal

 

[dejo]

The statement, from 2008, that all new HD consumer cameras from the past few years use USB is incorrect. In fact the most popular cameras between '05/'06 and '08 were tape based ones from Sony and Canon.

Are USB connections and tape-based mutually exclusive?

 

[RedTomato]

Are USB connections and tape-based mutually exclusive?

OK I made a snarky comment, and let that cat out of the bag. There's a 500 page thread on that topic. Let's stick to the topic of this particular thread OK?

One more off-topic comment about USB / firewire cameras and I swear I'll ask a mod to delete all these posts, including my own.

 

[smegma11]

Too bad he didn't pick an app that worked

I tried it and it wouldn't work. I looked at the reviews, 1 star all the way across the board.

 

[Rocketman]

It could have been rejected because it doesn't work as advertised.

Not to mention a true bandwidth hog if it becomes popular on an already stretched network.

Qik is a cool app. One would wonder why it was not a basic feature of iPhone3G until you realize the likely network usage impact.

Rocketman