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Apple Relaxes iOS Restrictions On Development Tools, Publishes Review Guidelines

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Re: Apple Relaxes iOS Restrictions On Development Tools, Publishes Review Guidelines

#11
What happened ? Did Adobe poke some government officials and Apple was starting to get bothered by that ?

It just seems incredibly stupid to first ban all tools -- just to mess with Adobe basically -- and then do an 180 and remove said restriction.

Re: Apple Relaxes iOS Restrictions On Development Tools, Publishes Review Guidelines

#12
post #3

Welcome, but long overdue.

It still doesn't really matter. They can revoke this stance whenever they want. It still remains risky to base your livelihood on a format completely controlled by someone else who ultimately couldn't care less about your needs.

Re: Apple Relaxes iOS Restrictions On Development Tools, Publishes Review Guidelines

#13
post #12
post #3

Welcome, but long overdue.

It still doesn't really matter. They can revoke this stance whenever they want. It still remains risky to base your livelihood on a format completely controlled by someone else who ultimately couldn't care less about your needs.

There's no way they could go back on this now. The outcry would be ten times larger than it was when they first restricted it.

Re: Apple Relaxes iOS Restrictions On Development Tools, Publishes Review Guidelines

#15
I just had a quick read of the new sections of the agreement. As far as I can see all restrictions on the languages and tools have been removed. No scripts or executable code can be downloaded by the app (ie it all has to be packaged) with the exception of javascript in a web component. Really I guess the press release says all that, but there is no equivocation in the terms of the actual agreement which is nice. Great move Apple!

Re: Apple Relaxes iOS Restrictions On Development Tools, Publishes Review Guidelines

#16
If you're a registered developer, you can read the just-published App Store Guidelines here:

http://developer.apple.com/appstore/resources/approval/guide...

For those who aren't registered developers, it's basically a list of 189 rules, most in the form of "Apps that ... will be rejected"

Re: Apple Relaxes iOS Restrictions On Development Tools, Publishes Review Guidelines

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post #9

Wait, so does this mean Apple doesn't have a problem with a 3rd-party framework becoming the preferred API for iOS development? How does not allowing apps that download code prevent this? Also, does this mean you can't download JavaScript from an external web page in your app?

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Re: Apple Relaxes iOS Restrictions On Development Tools, Publishes Review Guidelines

#20

If you're a registered developer, you can read the just-published App Store Guidelines here: http://developer.apple.com/appstore/resources/approval/guide... For those who aren't registered developers, it's basically a list of 189 rules, most in the form of "Apps that ... will be rejected"

Any chance someone can make that available to non-developers?
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