Manton Reece has a post outlining two solutions to fix some of the hassel developers have been having with the App Store and it’s fairly painful review process:
1. Accept all applications. Joe Hewitt, the developer of the Facebook application who this week also quit the App Store, has written well on this solution.
2. Allow applications to be installed on the phone without being listed in the App Store. Both Android and the Palm Pre support this model.
Option 1 is a good idea, but opens Apple up to liability issues.
Option 2 would fall more in line with how Mac development works these days. It wouldn’t be too hard to teach users how to install apps to their devices either: just drop this file onto iTunes. I think Indie Mac developers wanting to get onto the iPhone would find this setup much more palatable.
