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The latest on Apple and Adobe’s Cat Fight
Posted by Steven Preston in News
If you haven’t come across it yet, Apple’s recent updated release of their Developer Licence Program Agreement (you need to accept this agreement before you can submit anything to the App Store) has caused quite a stir. The really short version is that they now explicitly prohibit any apps to be submitted to the App Store that are written in multi-platform compilers. The most hard-hitting effect of this clause was summarised well by Philip Elmer-DeWitt in his post over at Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech site:
“What 3.3.1 says is that to be approved for sale on the App Store, programs must be originally written in one of three approved computer languages (C, C++, and Objective-C). It explicitly prohibits apps created with so-called cross-platform compilers.
The immediate effect is to put a nail through the heart of the Flash-to-iPhone compiler in the upcoming release of Flash Professional CS5, Adobe’s (ADBE) back-door way of getting those hundreds of thousands of Flash ads and videos to work on Apple’s mobile devices.”
The implications of the updated Agreement are clearly massive for the future of mobile app development and the ongoing war for supremecy between all the big guns. Check out the rest of Philip’s post as it gives an excellent account of the full situation:
http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2010/04/11/has-steve-jo…
