Calliflower's dirty laundry

When voice 2.0 company iotum went looking for a developer to build an iPhone client for its Calliflower conferencing service, it got a bit more than it bargained for. Iotium co-founder Alec Saunders is airing the good (not much), the bad, and the ugly in a multiple posts on the company's blog.

Saunders says that iPhone developer Jonathan Siegel, hired to build Calliflower on iPhone, continues to threaten to sue iotum and is using "just about every underhanded, cheap trick in the book to harass us" because of some past due billing. Iotum is paying up, but not as fast as Mr. Siegel wants, so there's been a DMCA takedown complaint with Apple and a collection agency chasing after them.

Iotum says part of the reason why it can't pay so fast is that it received a crappy app from Siegal in November - the originally contracted delivery date -- that was rejected by Apple's online store and didn't get working code until the end of January.  Iotum blew "a wad of money" in November for the anticipated on-time launch of the new product, but all that was a waste. Now woe is the company due to the economy, and it would like to work things out on an amicable basis of its choosing.

One might also spot a bit of unintentional irony in Saunders blog posting, as he invokes what is happening "All across America" with GM and Silicon Valley from his desk in Ottawa, Canada.

For more:
- Alec Saunder's discusses the pitfalls of iPhone contractors. Blog.

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