Longtime mobile developer feels no love from Apple

July 18, 2008 · Print This Article

Imagine you are a software development company that has been around for 11 years, with award-winning titles for mobile computing devices. You follow the rules, you submit iPhone versions of your applications to the App Store, and yet you still haven’t seen your programs produce it to the store.

This is the boat that a lot of developers are in, but it is particularly frustrating for Ilium Software. Ilium has sold two well-respected applications — eWallet and ListPro — for Palm OS and Windows Mobile devices for years, and has a number of other commercial and free mobile applications on the market.

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Ilium spokesperson Ellen Craw, eWallet has been “in the queue” at Apple for by two weeks, and they can’t get any word from App Store personnel on when their highly anticipated app will actually seem online. The in Ilium’s blog are particularly revealing, as longtime customers are plus frustrated by the black gap at Apple.

Having used Ilium’s products before, I’m waiting for both ListPro and eWallet to show up in the store to fill those niches on my iPhone. What other great products are being held up by Apple? We’d love to know!

[Source] Steven Sande

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