Fed Up, A Popular Mac Developer Quits The iPhone

By now, you've heard the horror stories. Developers put their heart and soul into building an application for the iPhone App Store only to have it rejected by Apple. And sometimes apps are at first accepted and then later pulled for odd reasons. And sometimes app updates are rejected, even though there isn't much difference with the version accepted. We get a half dozen or so stories sent to us now every single day . It's no wonder that a lot of mobile developers are growing wary of the App Store. But Steven Frank is not one of those developers. Steven Frank doesn't make iPhone apps, specifically for the reasons stated above. But he is a very popular Mac developer, that co-founded the OS X development house Panic , makers of the popular coding application Coda , among other apps. Frank is well-known in some circles as a Mac enthusiast. You know, the kind of person that is often derided as a "fanboy." And that's why what I'm about to tell you is surprising: He's ditching his iPhone.