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I was planning on building an app in Titanium. I guess I'll wait and see how this shakes out first.
btw, at the time of writing this comment Titanium's developer center is hosed. Maybe it became self aware at the same time and commited suicide.
Apple's doing this for the exact same reason they do EVERYTHING else controversial that they do on iPhone OS: because the primary (only?) thing they care about is the end user experience being as good as possible. In this case, Flash (which I'm sure this is entirely aimed at) doesn't provide as good of a user experience as the native UI controls, so they're nixing it while they can without as much bad publicity as they'd have if they waited until after CS5 was released.
Hope you guys enjoy the mass exodus of decent developers from your dumbass platform with kiddie languages.
I don't really have a politically correct way to say this: What a horseshit maneuver by Apple.
I have been a very loyal mac user for years and love it, but I'm seriously considering going back to Linux. I am not a free software "zealot" and don't mind some closed-ness, but this is getting absolutely insane. Enforcing which LANGUAGES can be used on a platform?!? Insane! Edit: I've been looking at these guys: http://www.system76.com/ (I don't work with or have any vested interest in them, but they look cool.)
I don't really have a politically correct way to say this: What a horseshit maneuver by Apple.
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"a majority of the apps will probably have commercial spots embedded within them" The majority of apps on the app store already do . Free apps, ad-supported. Apple just wants the ads to not suck so much, but hey, nobody has to use iAds.
but hey, nobody has to use iAds Yet.
I don't really have a politically correct way to say this: What a horseshit maneuver by Apple.
Just make a webapp :/ all the freedom you need.