Briefs’ Uncertain Future
Briefs is a brilliant user interface prototyping tool for iPhone. It was meant to be released on the app store, but unfortunately faces an uncertain future at the hands of Apple’s app store policies. That’s why its developer Rob Rhyne kindly decided to release it as an open source project:
With the status unknown and Apple openly opposing the strategy behind Briefs, it has become hard to stay motivated. So instead of trucking along, and growing more resentful of the project, I’ve decided to take a break. And to cool the sting, I’m releasing the 1.0 code base to github today.
It’s a shame how Apple not only deprives UI designers and software developers of a genuinely useful tool that could help them improve the quality of their apps for Apple’s own platform, but also how it obviously saps the passion for his project out of a talented developer.
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