So someone just called me at 1:30am and woke me up. They were trying to order pizza from Pizza Shuttle in Norman, OK about 40 minutes from my apartment.
I get this all of the time. Whenever I get a call from a 405 number that I don't know I just assume they are trying to order pizza. I usually tell people you meant to dial 354-4440 instead of 365-4440 (my number). It's pretty annoying to say the least.
I've tried to mess with people and take orders before, but it never really works out. One time I tried it the girl said the driver locked her out of her house and she needed the phone number of his girlfriend or something like that. I just hung up.
So I'm 19 years old in case you didn't know. When I was 18, I moved across the country from Louisville, KY to Oklahoma City, OK for a sweet job. That was pretty crazy. I love my job at LifeChurch.tv on the Digerati Team. While I've been here I worked on some pretty amazing projects like the LifeChurch.tv website, One Prayer, and the YouVersion Bible App for the iPhone.
So along the way some pretty crappy stuff happened to me that I won't go into. If you remember, my tweets were real depressing for a bit around July. Anyway, life is good. I know there is some way better stuff for me in Oklahoma than what I have worked on so far.
The only thing is that I'm 19. Everyone I work with is way older than me and most of them are married with kids. Who does a 19 year old with a career hang out? I don't know any college kids because I don't go to college. Pretty frustrating right now.
So recently TUAW did a story about how cool a Mac App Store would be. On the surface, this sounds like a great idea. As a developer, this is the last thing I would want.
There are some pros. Easily allowing anyone with a Mac to be able to search for my apps easily would be awesome. Also, having the ability to update apps automatically is really great too. Probably the best pro for me would be Apple handling taking money with all of the weird currencies. (I hate dealing with money.)
All of that is great, but for an app to be in Apple's App Store, they are going to want to review it and put it through some sort of approval process. For any apps doing unusual stuff or stuff that Apple doesn't really want you doing for whatever reason, won't make it in the store. The developers that have apps that can't get in the App Store would be screwed. People would probably be scared to get non App Store apps.
If Apple let any apps into their App Store, then I would be all for this, but that would never happen. If they did let any app in, the whole thing would get full of crap too.
On the iPhone App Store, if you use any private APIs, you will get banned right away. Everyone's favorite Mac App, Quicksilver uses a lot of private APIs and probably wouldn't be allowed. Firefox and Adium would probably not be allowed either because they duplicate functionality that ships with the OS.
Bottom line: if there is an approval process, I am 100% against a Mac App Store.