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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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