Hey, this is the Daily Overpass! My name is Eric and I make apps! Now today, I want
to talk about how the complaints about Apple guideline 4.3 are starting to
snowball.
Okay, so check out this backdrop, huh? I wasn't expecting to have a background
like this today. One of the things - it surprises a lot of people, but it
doesn't snow a lot in England. It's been like six or seven years, especially
this part in Oxfordshire. It's been like six or seven years since we've had a
proper snowfall, where you could go out sledding and build snowmen and throw
snowballs and all this kind of stuff. And and we had that yesterday morning. It's
still here today. Everything's kind of gone a bit haywire. The schools are
closed, the roads are still a mess, you know, it's because we don't have a lot of
snow here in England. And they're not really prepared for it. So, but anyway, but
it's beautiful and as somebody who's grown up in San Diego where we didn't
have snow and I've lived in a few places where we've had snow. And
I know it gets tiring for people who have it all the time, but it's still very,
very exciting today. Anyway, so today, I wanted to talk about an article I read
over the weekend from TechCrunch. It was all about the Apple 4.3 issues that
we've been having with the guidelines over the last several months. I know I've
talked about it a few times, so it's 4.3. 4.2.6, you know,
all this kind of stuff. And the TechCrunch article was - it was nice to
see it, you know, report it in a more of a mainstream area because it's
starting to affect more and more people and basically it was all about
how it's affecting small businesses. You know, several small businesses,
at least one of a - few of them at a closed doors, just because they can't
meet these requirements. And it's all about how the requirement has nothing to
do with quality. It's all to do with things beyond quality. I'm gonna include a
link to the article down below because you should have a look at it. And a
congressman is actually written an open letter to Tim Cook, they're
trying to get - starting to get a little bit more notice and everything like that,
because it's affecting a lot of people and people who haven't done
anything wrong. So, it's a really good out article, you should have a
look at i. But the big thing that was, is that there's a there's a link in that
article to a change.org site so and I'll include that in the comments below or in
the description below too. So, basicall, over the last couple months,
I've been talking with some - with Jenny Cary, who's also she's
sometimes comments on the videos and she's been really hugely affected by
it. In fact, I've spoken to so many people have been more badly affected by it than
I am. That it's just, you know, I feel bad for complaining about it at all.
But it's - you know, a lot of people have to remove the majority of their apps, a
lot of businesses that do work for clients can no longer do the work for
clients, it's just all of sudden, we have this big
problem which has nothing to do with themselves. So anyway, Jenny and I have been
talking about starting a change.org petition. And I just been dragging
my feet on it. I'm really, really sorry about that. But anyway, there's
a link to one of them in the - in that TechCrunch article. I'm gonna
go ahead and sign it. So, if it's something that really affects you, the
4.3 and the 4.2.6 guidelines that have just -
they've really been bearing down on this the last few months and
making - you have them make him, you know, it turned from - business-wise, they've been
making my life hell. They really have. So, because the future is just
so uncertain, we - I don't know how we're gonna continue on the outside. The ideal
would be that everybody just gives up their Apple device. They just get
rid of their iPhones and they all move on to Android. But that's not gonna
happen. I mean, I use an iPad every day and from a hardware point of view, I love
Apple products. But it's just that that, yeah, all of a sudden, we have that
get stopped, you know, whatever it is where it's not the free
and open platform that we hoped it would be, or at least that I hoped it would be.
Anyway, so today, I just wanted to say if it's something that really affects
you, go ahead and go to that petition. I'm gonna go ahead and sign it. It's not
my petition. I didn't bring it up, but I'm gonna go ahead and contribute to it. I
just want to make you, guys, aware of it, if you didn't know about it. And you know.
it's so cold, beautiful (laughs) today. It's really nice and so, let me know...
And also, let me know if you, guys, think about it. I spoke into people who have
had to go through and delete like hundreds of their apps. They haven't been
able to get anything through on Apple for months. For me, I got a little bit of
leeway there. They gave you the 90 days to update everything, but again, after the
first of January, I don't know if they're gonna remove everything or what. So. let
me know how you, guys, have been affected by it if you have. And that's it for
today. I'll talk to you, guys, tomorrow!