@joehewitt quits Facebook App Development
Joe Hewitt, the developer behind the popular and well thought out Facebook app for iPhone and iPod Touch has quit the app project team! (He conitnues employment with Facebook, though.)
With a simple and respectful tweet, he annouced his departure.
“Time for me to try something new. I’ve handed the Facebook iPhone app off to another engineer, and I’m onto a new project”. (http://twitter.com/joehewitt/status/5631765190)
I follow the complaints from developers on the app store approval process and empathize greatly with them. As a web interface developer in a past life, I know well the long hours of tedious testing and re-testing code, tweeking it until it is just right. And to have an unknown and unseen app approval kick your hard work to the curb with a generic and unpersonalized and vague description as to why YOU cannot sell or offer up your product at no cost to people; well this is just cut my throat and chew my butt painful.
Okay — to the point. This is strong announcement sends a strong message to Apples App Store management team. Kudos to Joe Hewitt for his stance against the app store’s macbre and nonsensical approval process.
