Everyone is stupid. And arrogant. No, wait…

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As is common these days, Paul Graham had a good old fashioned moan about Apple’s app store approval process. Choice excerpts include “The App Store is an ongoing karma leak”, “they [Apple] don’t understand software” and “they [Apple] get away with maltreating developers”. Joining the ranks of such as Trent Reznor and John Gruber, Graham is not alone in his complaints.

Following on from the delay in approval of necessary bug fixes, new apps being rejected because they show unfiltered Internet content (like, uh, Safari) and other apps being rejected seemingly at random – one company even tried emailing Teh Steve directly. Since they had infringed an Apple trademark in their app’s name (iPodRip) Jobs’ reply seemed obvious, and you have to wonder why these people thought it would be okay to doing the equivalent of naming an app “iApple”. (Gizmodo reports in more detail here.)

Peter-Paul CKoch responded to Graham’s seemingly reasonable points by stamping his feet and declaring that everyone is stupid. Faruk Ateş followed up declaring that they’re not stupid, but couldn’t let it go without declaring them arrogant instead. Dion Almaer responded saying that they are neither stupid nor arrogant. PPK followed up saying that maybe everyone is not stupid, but declared that they might become stupid later and so he probably wasn’t really wrong after all. Finally (so far) Ateş followed up the reply to the follow up to the reply to the follow up seemingly unsure to whether or
not everyone is stupid and/or arrogant. However, all these authors seem to have been careful to be apologetic to each other throughout this process and are probably now having a cuddle somewhere.

We think they’re stupid though. And arrogant. Actually, sorry, we take that back.

No, we love you the most. No, you hang up.

Tags: app store, apple, arrogant, dion almaer, faruk ateş, john gruber, paul graham, peter-paul koch, steve jobs, stupid, trent reznor