There are more than 2 million apps on Apple's iTunes App Store, and the company just announced a massive revamp of the marketplace, largely to address the problem of developers not being able to find users for their applications.
That creates all sorts of problems for developers who have no assurance that the problem is actually fixed.
The individual business problems of a developer are often at odds with a platform in just this way, and so to do its job well a developer often has to look for advantage.
The move is causing problems for developers in all manner of ways as expressed here and here.
Alas, there's also the human problem — the problem of shady developers.
There are certainly other products looking to attack a similar problem of getting developers on the same page.
The platform gets around the problem of needing developers to spend cash by operating its own currency, the 'daq'daq
This avoids the problem of suing developers or users of Linux distributions, such as Red Hat, which would threaten the many large Microsoft customers that use both Windows and Linux.
Such links may present problems to developers.
The cloning of Secret and Whisper is symptomatic of a problem other developers of popular apps, like Vine, have dealt with.
