> **Developers jump ship?**
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> There’s another reason the iPhone is losing its edge. Developers may be switching to Android.
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> The iPhone’s appeal is in large part tied to the hundreds of thousands of applications available in the App Store. But Apple’s controlling nature has frustrated developers. Its esoteric App Store rules mean that applications can be rejected for all manner of reasons, creating a strong disincentive to develop on the platform.
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> Apple has earned enemies, too, in its battle against Adobe Flash. By essentially banning Flash from the iPhone, Apple has provided fuel to critics who say the iPhone is a “closed” platform: You can play in Apple’s sandbox, but only if you abide by their rules. The rules, it seems, become stricter every day.
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> No wonder, then, that Google’s I/O conference this week hinged around one word: “open.” Developers audibly cheered, writes Mashable’s [Jolie O’Dell](http://mashable.com/2010/05/20/froyo-screws-apple/), as Google execs presented their latest creation, Android Froyo.
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> To the delight of developers in attendance, Froyo supports Flash. Vic Gundotra, Google’s vice president of engineering, received enthusiastic applause as he quipped: “It turns out that on the Internet, people use Flash.”
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> Amid the applause, there was laughter, too. A rebellion against Apple’s encumbered system.
via [cnn.com](http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/05/21/cashmore.iphone.cool/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29&utm_content=Google+Reader)
Name me one iPhone developer, one, that was previously making iPhone apps but is now making Android apps exclusively. There isn’t one. Because Android developers can’t make a living making Android apps.
The occasional grumbling you do hear about this or that app not being approved never leads to anyone “jumping ship” to Android. More often than not, it leads to Apple approving the app after all.
You can talk about disincentives all you want. The fact of the matter is, there’s only one incentive: money. And all the money is with Apple, while none is with Android. That isn’t going to change with Flash or Froyo.
Flash developers who are angry that they can’t make iPhone apps aren’t iPhone developers. They never were. In order to be an iPhone app developer, you have to actually write apps for the iPhone. Non-iPhone developers becoming non-iPhone developers isn’t a story. No ships. No jumping.
And anyone who puts “Flash” and “Open” in the same story without laughing is not a credible source of information.
You have to be delusional to think Apple is in trouble at this point.
