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Would Adobe have a valid antitrust case with this?
Nope. Apple doesn't have a monopoly in the phone market.
When Alan Kay said Apple would take over the world with an iPad, I don't think he realized that eToys or anything like eToys would never be allowed to run on the device and that a majority of the apps will probably have commercial spots embedded within them. Actually it reminds me of "educational" tv all over again...
I'm starting to see the point of people who complain about the consume vs. create nature of the iPad...
I find it same time amusing and hard to believe that this kind of requirement (writing apps only in C++ & Obj-C) is legally possible.
I wonder if the open source world can successfully fight back, by making compilers that generate code the app store police can't tell from hand written.
I don't really have a politically correct way to say this: What a horseshit maneuver by Apple.
Enforcing which LANGUAGES can be used on a platform?!? Insane!
Edit: I've been looking at these guys:
(I don't work with or have any vested interest in them, but they look cool.)
I find it same time amusing and hard to believe that this kind of requirement (writing apps only in C++ & Obj-C) is legally possible.
I'm pretty sure that it's legally possible. It's a contract and I don't think that this restriction would be struck down by any court as being not valid.
I don't really have a politically correct way to say this: What a horseshit maneuver by Apple.
Controlling programmers like this seems positively insane, doesn't it? Does this mean that games can't do scripting in something like Lua either, under the letter of Apple's law?
Is there a legitimate reason for this, or is Apple just thumbing their noses at Adobe (and everyone else)? Is Apple primarily annoyed that Adobe's app and MonoTouch aren't doing it the "Apple" way? Or do they not like that those frameworks present non-standard UI's (I haven't used MonoTouch, so I don't even know if that's the case here)?