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Re:New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others by AndrewO on Thursday April 08, 2010 @05:30PM (#1251044)
While Adobe is going to bear the brunt of this, this looks like a calculated move against Android as well. By precluding things like PhoneGap (if it turns out that it's "an intermediary translation or compatibility layer"), they're forcing developers that can only afford to write an application once to choose one platform. Right now, iPhone is the easy choice for a lot of developers, just based on market.

The end result being fewer apps for Android and a less vibrant software ecosystem.

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Re:New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others by hristov on Thursday April 08, 2010 @06:01PM (#1251160)
Yeah, but if someone writes a compiler that compiles apps natively written for the iphone into android apps, Google will allow that and Apple can do nothing to stop it. So in a way this will mostly hurt Apple.
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Re:New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others by wvenable on Thursday April 08, 2010 @07:04PM (#1251322)
But Apple will still be the first-class platform and Android will be the second-class citizen in that scenario.
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Re:New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others by ryanhuff on Thursday April 08, 2010 @07:17PM (#1251370)
That would be Apple's dream. All mobile developers coding on macbooks.
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Re:New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others by cheald on Thursday April 08, 2010 @06:36PM (#1251241)
If I have to pick one platform, it's going to be Android. I already know Java, but even more simply than that, I know Javascript, and Appcelerator's Titanium lets me basically write an app as though it was a web app. I don't have to invest 2 months of intensive study at the cost of my other work; I'm going to go with what I know.

Companies that have existing resources in Objective C, sure, they may choose to go with the iPhone. Developers who already know Objective C will go with the iPhone. Developers who, like me, don't yet know Objective C, and have been interested in development on the iPhone through PhoneGap or Titanium? We're not going to bother with the iPhone.

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Re:New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others by MutantSushi on Friday April 09, 2010 @01:36AM (#1251980)
I have to pick one platform besides CocoaTouch it would be Nokia/Intel's MeeGo.
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