<story><title>Save My House From Apple</title><url>http://savemyhousefromapple.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>petercooper</author><text>This is the same Apple that plans for GateKeeper to check a certificate server for blacklisted apps and developers in OS X 10.8.&lt;p&gt;Imagine not even being in the App Store and your app&apos;s mainstream customers with default settings seeing a scary warning message because your certificate was accidentally blacklisted. Coming to the HN front page later this year..? :-)&lt;p&gt;Orienting your business around the ecosystem of a corporation with an itchy trigger finger is a tricky game of dice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>robomartin</author><text>This isn&apos;t just an Apple problem.  There&apos;s a disturbing trend here.  All of the dominant internet companies exhibit this kind of nonsensical &quot;evil&quot; behavior:  Google, eBay, Apple and Paypal, to name the most salient examples.&lt;p&gt;Way back when, Microsoft was openly painted by Apple (and the Apple cult followers) as being evil.  Interestingly enough, Microsoft never sought to have this kind of a death grip on its users, at least not by force.  And, I&apos;ve never heard of MS killing-off someone&apos;s revenue stream like that.  You buy their tools and develop for the platform.  They don&apos;t have a say at all.  That&apos;s the way it should be.&lt;p&gt;Somehow a united front needs to be organized and presented to these companies in order for them to understand that they are causing serious damage.&lt;p&gt;To say that, as entrepreneurs, businessmen and developers we don&apos;t want to see the tech landscape develop and evolve in this manner is probably an understatement.&lt;p&gt;I wonder if CNBC might be interested in doing a documentary on the damage to small businesses and entrepreneurs done by the likes of Google, Apple, eBay and Paypal?  That could be an interesting angle.</text></comment>
<story><title>Save My House From Apple</title><url>http://savemyhousefromapple.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>petercooper</author><text>This is the same Apple that plans for GateKeeper to check a certificate server for blacklisted apps and developers in OS X 10.8.&lt;p&gt;Imagine not even being in the App Store and your app&apos;s mainstream customers with default settings seeing a scary warning message because your certificate was accidentally blacklisted. Coming to the HN front page later this year..? :-)&lt;p&gt;Orienting your business around the ecosystem of a corporation with an itchy trigger finger is a tricky game of dice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nkassis</author><text>I can imagine a situation where a 20 dev shop gets closed because of something like this and they can&apos;t make payroll. There are lot of people here basing their company on an App in the app store. I&apos;d be terrified.</text></comment>