Qt Apps banned from Mac App Store?

[ChrisW67]

For the Mac there's nothing stopping you distributing the Qt-based application yourself. As an added bonus you get to keep the 30% Apple tax. Of course, if Apple try to make the App store the only distribution channel for applications on the Mac then that's a different proposition.

I am routinely asked when the iPhone/iPad (and soon Android) versions of my products are due. Notice the absolute assumption that there will be a iPhone/iPad/Android versions.. like it is some deity-given right and as easy as flicking a switch. It is a shame that Qt cannot get me to those platforms.
Some of the Apple store restrictions are also potential show stoppers for me:

• Apps that are “beta”, “demo”, “trial”, or “test” versions will be rejected. Would you buy an app for more than a few tens of dollars sight unseen?
• Apps containing “rental” content or services that expire after a limited time will be rejected. My app would depend on periodic updates of the data contained within but this is not a free exercise for me. Apple wants you to sell the application over again in order to collect another 30%. To make this work I need to drastically drop the application price thereby devaluing the product on other platforms.
• Apps may not use update mechanisms outside of the App Store
• Apps that present a license screen at launch will be rejected

[d_stranz]

If Steve were 200 lbs heavier, he could take off his shoe, pound it on the podium, and scream "We will bury you!" at the next press conference. He apparently doesn't read history, at least not the histories associated with other centrally-controlled, dogmatic dictatorial enterprises like the (former) Soviet Union.

The Apple Store restrictions sound to me like an excellent way to reduce your market share in deference to the more open models of other mobile OS platforms.

[wysota]

Well, so far they are successful so it seems the approach was a correct one from a business point of view. They can always change their rules should some other scheme become popular enough.