Dominique Leca quien es el Co-fundador de la aplicación que muchos adoran “Sparrow” le comento a Business Insider que su equipo esta trabajando con la versión para el iPhone.
BI: Isn’t one of Apple’s rules for the mobile App Store that you can’t “duplicate functionality”?
DL: Yes, but on the Mac, they can’t really apply it, so you’ve got a way out. You can license your software without being considered a rogue developer, like you might on Cydia [the jailbreak app store for iPhone].
Developers have been selling Mac apps long before the MAS was introduced, whereas for most people, the only want to get content on an iPhone is through the App Store. It was a walled garden from the very beginning.
We’ll see what happens with Sparrow for iPhone. We’re just starting on this, but it’s still far far away. But we’ll give it a try, Apple be with us.
BI: So do you think they’ll approve it?
DL: I think they will. They’re accepting third party browsers, so why not mail? This would be really inconsistent. Opera has a browser out there, and I think Mozilla has one coming too.
Para los que aún no saben pues Sparrow es un cliente de email para la Mac que tiene un estilo bien peculiar. Sparrow para Mac esta disponible en el Mac App Store por $9.99, también tienen una versión “Lite” que restringe al usuario a una sola cuenta de correo electrónico.
Seria bueno ver una alternativa real al Mail.app de iOS.
