It’s worth saying that while we are still at Apple’s mercy for application deployment, the approval process for fresh apps and updates has gotten notably faster recently. Nearly everything we’ve pushed in the past month has made it onto the store in less than 24 hours.
While discoursing on the subject of Flash again, Gruber says this about Apple:
It boils down to control. I’ve written several times that I believe Apple controls the entire source code to iPhone OS. (No one has disputed that.) There’s no bug Apple can’t try to fix on their own. No performance problem they can’t try to tackle. No one they need to wait for.Yet Apple has shown no concern in this regard for the developers of the applications for the iPhone. The current App Store infrastructure is not set up so a developer can quickly fix a bug. Unless he/she works for Apple.
