I can’t believe that Apple actually has in its iPhone SDK agreement a part that stipulates that you can’t distribute “frameworks”. I can’t possibly see the point of this at all. If I came up with what I thought was a really good framework that helps you to build applications much more stable and faster, wouldn’t this be a good thing to share? Wouldn’t it benefit the entire community? It makes sense now why I haven’t seen any frameworks for the iPhone – I always thought this was a little strange because usually there are ones out within days for other platforms. I just can’t believe how many draconian rules have have stipulated for their SDK, it just goes to show that there really is no better alternative at the moment, because otherwise I can’t fathom why developers would stick around.

I have found out though that it is Ok to share sample code, so you can show people an example app that includes your framework and then let them use it from there. This technically means you are not actually distributing the framework but merely sharing code. This is another example of how dumb the rules are, if you can get away with doing it by calling it something else why not just let people do it properly?

Now I have to mention something about Apple’s app review process. The link provided above is from Joe Hewitts blog – he is a facebook employee who develops their app for the iPhone. It is pretty much agreed that the facebook application is probably the best and most useful free app available on the iPhone (Perhaps best of all apps – who knows). They have just finalised their version 3 application and released it to the store for review – now being an important app you would think that it would have been green lighted pretty fast wouldn’t you? Well nearly two weeks have passed and still nothing. I mean how messed up is that? He has a little rant about the process and I agree with him that the process should be scrapped altogether – go and read the post for the full story. Even techcrunch have been getting angry emails about it all.