Snydeq writes to entrust Peter Wayner's inside look at the frustration iPhone developers face from Apple when attempting to issue their apps through the iPhone App Store. Wayner's long piece is an all-inclusive analogy comparing Apple to the worst of Soviet-era bureaucracy. "Determined simply to dump an HTML version of his book into UIWebView and offer two versions through the App Store, Wayner endures four months of inexplicable silences, mixed messages, and almost whimsical rejections from Apple — the kind of frustration and incertitude Wayner believes is fast transforming Apple's regulated fete into a hotbed of bottom-feeding mediocrity. 'Developers are afraid to risk serious evolvement time on the scaffold as long as unnamed gatekeepers are able to delay projects by weeks and months with some ostensibly random flick of a finger,' Wayner writes of his experience. 'It's one thing to delay a homebrew project like mine, but it's another thing to shut down a team of developers burning real cash. Apple should be worried when real programmers shrug off the rejections by saying, "It's just a hobby."'"

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