{"id":40339,"date":"2009-11-11T20:30:28","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T01:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"tag:betanews.com,2007:article-1257989566"},"modified":"2009-11-11T20:30:28","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T01:30:28","slug":"facebook-for-iphone-developer-goes-from-apple-supporter-to-i-quit-in-3-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/40339","title":{"rendered":"Facebook for iPhone developer goes from Apple supporter to ‘I quit!’ in 3 months"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Tim Conneally<\/a>, Betanews<\/a><\/p>\n

If you’re an iPhone user with a Facebook account, chances are good that you have Facebook for iPhone<\/a>. In fact, it has roughly 17.3 million users, or about 28% of the 60 million users<\/a> accessing Facebook on a mobile device.<\/p>\n

One of the developers who worked on that app is Joe Hewitt, who today tweeted: “Time for me to try something new. I’ve handed the Facebook iPhone app off to another engineer, and I’m onto a new project.”<\/p>\n

He’s not just leaving the Facebook project, but abandoning the iPhone altogether.<\/p>\n

Hewitt told TechCrunch<\/i><\/a> today that he quit the project because of Apple’s strict approval and management policies in the iTunes App Store.<\/p>\n

He said: “My decision to stop iPhone development has had everything to do with Apple’s policies. I respect their right to manage their platform however they want, however I am philosophically opposed to the existence of their review process. I am very concerned that they are setting a horrible precedent for other software platforms, and soon gatekeepers will start infesting the lives of every software developer.”<\/p>\n

This is quite a turn of events, considering Hewitt’s last blog entry<\/a> in August said: “No matter how annoyed I get, I will not stop developing for Apple’s platforms or using Apple’s products as long as they continue to produce the best stuff on the market.<\/strong> I never forget how deeply Apple cares about making their users happy, and that counts more than how they treat their developers. Besides, when I have a problem with a friend, I don’t threaten to boycott our friendship until they change, so I’m not going to do that to Apple either.”<\/p>\n

The developer he’s handed the app over to is Owen Yamauchi<\/a>, a Facebook software developer and former Apple engineer.<\/p>\n

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