Shekhar Yadav is by far the worst offender in iPhone app crapware!

[razorianfly]

Actually i'm going to say Tom Peck of AppEngines is far worse.

he's charing .99 for free book.

there's a free app out there that has all the same books and much more called Stanza

I also have a review for him too.

Review: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/...r=0&type=Purple+Software&userReviewId=5380998

He's INSANE. Why not just create an e-book reader, like Stanza?

No effort what-so-ever, just copied from the public domain.

Not to menton the amount of books he has on the store (83 on last count),
and me and everyone else having to SIFT through them to get to the good stuff.

83 E-Books x at 0.99p each, means he receives £82.17 (- Apple's 30% of £24.60) = £57.57
(Every time some unfortunate soul is tricked into buying all of his e-books - Not bad, for copy and paste).

People like this should have their developer membership taken away.

What happened to Apple providing 'Quality'.

R-Fly

 

[spercharged69]

What they need is to charge more for "Pro" developer apps like a 5k buy in for your bigger companies, then have your "Independents" or amature app sections

This would be pretty huge. This way, real developers like Tapulous and SEGA could be put in a priority queue for apps and updates to be pushed out ahead of all the flashlight apps and magic 8 balls.

 

[admanimal]

This would be pretty huge. This way, real developers like Tapulous and SEGA could be put in a priority queue for apps and updates to be pushed out ahead of all the flashlight apps and magic 8 balls.

It's a tough call though, because there are little developers who can make something as nice as any big company but wouldn't be able to pay that much to compete with them.

 

[janey]

This would be pretty huge. This way, real developers like Tapulous and SEGA could be put in a priority queue for apps and updates to be pushed out ahead of all the flashlight apps and magic 8 balls.

Are we forgetting there's a $99/year premium?

I can only imagine that's keeping out the utter and complete trash.

Although I thought I saw it all seeing Apple-provided sample code being sold for 99 cents on the app store..wrote a bad review for that one:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=286059003&mt=8

(Also about AppEngines..they're using public domain books, and the guy likes to state that they're "donating" 20% to Project Gutenberg, but the project actually charges a 20% royalty to anyone charging for the books. Ha ha.)