iPhone Facebook lead developer Joe Hewitt calls it quits over App Store policies. [Update]
**Update inside: webOS in Joe’s Crosshairs?…
Apple may be rolling out a new window — albeit small window — that allows iPhone devs to peer into the inner workings of the App Store approval process, but is it too little too late? The link in the previous sentence goes to an article I just wrote on how Apple can make this new found gesture of “openness” actually useful. Again, that’s already old news. It happened several hours ago. The fact of the matter is, Apple has taken so long to get to this point and stepped on so many toes, they are now pushing away the very core of the iPhone platform. Don’t believe me? Let’s just take a look at the story of Joe Hewitt, the lead ex-lead developer for the Facebook iPhone app.
Now before we go more in depth, we have to throw out the appropriate question: “It surely can’t be all Apple can it? I mean, is it just some anti-Apple bias bubbling to the surface of my inner being? Not quite. Joe admits himself that Apple is the reason he’s ditching the iPhone platform…
