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Apple’s control over the App Store—which seems arbitrary at times—still frustrates developers. That much isn’t a surprise, but some developers have become frustrated to the point that they have decided to simply halt iPhone development altogether. Facebook’s Joe Hewitt, Second Gear’s Justin Williams, and long-time Mac software developer Rogue Amoeba have all recently decided that enough is enough, and the loss of these developers and others could spell a troubling future for the App Store. True, it has over 100,000 applications, but how many of them are created with the kind of care and passion we take for granted in the Mac software world?

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