Hi Steve,Lots of people are pissed off at Apples mandate that applications be originally written in C/C++/Objective-C. If you go, for example, to the Hacker News homepage right now:Youll see that most of the front page stories about this new restriction, with #1 being: Steve Jobs Has Just Gone Mad with (currently) 243 upvotes. The top 5 stories are all negative reactions to the TOS, and there are several others below them as well. Not a single positive reaction, even from John Gruber, your biggest fan.I love your product, but your SDK TOS are growing on it like an invisible cancer.Sincerely,Greg
We think John Grubers post is very insightful and not negative:http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/why_apple_changed_section_331Steve
Sorry. I didnt catch that post, but I finished it just now.I still think it undermines Apple. You didnt need this clause to get to where you are now with the iPhones market share, adding it just makes people lose respect for you and run for the hills, as a commenter to that article stated:So what Apple does not want is for some other company to establish a de facto standard software platform on top of Cocoa Touch. Not Adobes Flash. Not .NET (through MonoTouch). If that were to happen, theres no lock-in advantage.And that makes Apple evil. At least, it does in the sense that Google uses the term in dont be evil I believe pg translated evil as something along the lines of trying to compete by means other than making the best product and marketing it honestly.From a developers point of view, youre limiting creativity itself. Gruber is wrong, there are plenty of [applications] written using cross-platform frameworks that are amazing, that he himself has praised. Mozillas Firefox just being one of them.I dont think Apple has much to gain with 3.3.1, quite the opposite actually.Sincerely,Greg
Weve been there before, and intermediate layers between the platform and the developer ultimately produces sub-standard apps and hinders the progress of the platform.
macquarius om 12:43, 11-04-2010Even een zijweggetje inslaan: Het is mogelijk dat als Adobe hiermee erg naast de pot gaat piesen ze bij een volgende Creative Suite release alleen een Windows versie maken...
Robert om 12:55,@ rvanoostrum: Adroid is het voorbeeld dat dat kennelijk niet zo is, in ieder geval niet in een omgeving met relatief weinig RAM.
Peter Villevoye om 15:30, 11-04-2010Nou moe, waar haal je dat in 's hemelsnaam vandaan ?
Flauwekul, dat is helemaal niet de doelstelling van deze keuze.Apple ondersteunt Java, Javascript, HTML & CSS in alle smaken,en is daar bovendien vaak voorloper in.
Apple heeft meermalen en duidelijk aangegeven waarom ze"gelaagde" software (runtimes) niet op iPhone en iPad wensen:onveilig, niet stabiel, niet zuinig en een hindernis bij upgrades.
Het is juist Adobe die probeert een eigen wereld te creëren,waarbij alles op Flash gebaseerd wordt. En dat terwijl zelfsde meeste Flash-content niet eens een open structuur biedt !
Alleen heb JIJ daar moeite mee.