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Re:New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others by jrockway on Thursday April 08, 2010 @05:36PM (#1251074)
Seems like Apple thinks the same restriction applies. If you use parenscript or coffeescript (or GWT) to generate your JavaScript, you are technically violating the contract you signed with Apple.

Of course, if you didn't sign that, then you can do whatever you want.

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Re:New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others by axod on Thursday April 08, 2010 @05:44PM (#1251097)
If they started actively censoring/blocking websites that they determine haven't written javascript by hand, then that would be theonion.com territory (And the end of their sales) :)
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Re:New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others by statictype on Friday April 09, 2010 @05:57AM (#1252297)
> then that would be theonion.com territory

As opposed to where they are right now? Enforcing what higher level language you write in before it gets compiled down to machine code?

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Re:New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others by axod on Friday April 09, 2010 @11:53AM (#1253008)
The web = open

Native apps that run directly on their hardware = closed - you play by their rules or not at all.

shrug pretty clear difference IMHO.

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