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Title: Bad Apple
Post by: JimH on April 13, 2010, 10:28:52 pm
The kind of closed door attitude that Apple has:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=1904

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3.3.1 — Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs. Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine, and only code written in C, C++, and Objective-C may compile and directly link against the Documented APIs (e.g., Applications that link to Documented APIs through an intermediary translation or compatibility layer or tool are prohibited).

"With that single paragraph, Apple appears to have put the kibosh on hundreds of applications already on the market or in the works, and destroyed a cottage industry of companies building cross-platform development tools that had hoped to bridge the gap between iPhone, Android, and PC programming. Let’s take a look at who stands to lose the most."

....

"Lee Brimelow, an Adobe platform evangelist, famously wrote “Go screw yourself Apple” on his personal blog after hearing of the change."
Title: Re: Bad Apple
Post by: gappie on April 14, 2010, 12:09:02 am
one day they will come back on this i guess. for now they surf on their own hype thinking they can do it all..

 :)
gab
Title: Re: Bad Apple
Post by: grandlulu on April 13, 2010, 04:04:28 pm
Bon, moi je vais revendre mon nano 5G, dommage, il a toutes les fonctions que j'attendais sauf... marche pas avec mc15, bad, bad, bad !
Title: Re: Bad Apple
Post by: gappie on April 13, 2010, 04:21:34 pm
Bon, moi je vais revendre mon nano 5G, dommage, il a toutes les fonctions que j'attendais sauf... marche pas avec mc15, bad, bad, bad !
i thought the 5th generation of apple worked with mc?

 :)
gab