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A comment on New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others. Parent comment

Re:New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others by ptomato on Thursday April 08, 2010 @06:43PM (#1251259)
Even granted that, the reason Apple doesn't want that is still because of the UX. Apps with the same codebase for Android/iPhone will automatically suck as far as the UI is concerned. Things like the lack of multitouch gestures on android, different screen sizes, &c. Certainly has never worked well on desktop platforms... see: Java UI toolkits, QT (which looks fairly native but tends to feel very wrong), Adobe Air, &c.
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Re:New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others by tumult on Thursday April 08, 2010 @06:50PM (#1251282)
Who cares what you think they want? Read the developer agreement. What's it say? Anything that isn't C, C++, or Objective-C is banned.
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Re:New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others by ptomato on Thursday April 08, 2010 @06:54PM (#1251290)
Yup. And your point is? For the third time now, my point isn't that this is a good thing, and I'm certainly not a fan of the decision. My point is that Apple isn't doing this because they hate developers, or want to tweak Adobe's nose (well, maybe a little), but because all they care about is their product's user experience.
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Re:New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others by tumult on Thursday April 08, 2010 @07:17PM (#1251368)
Why does it matter what language I used to develop an application, if it produces a binary that runs acceptably on the platform and otherwise follows all of the rules? I can write a more stable application in SML, Haskell or even untyped Scheme than most of the clowns I see making app store junk in Objective-C.
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Re:New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others by rortian on Thursday April 08, 2010 @09:11PM (#1251551)
Apple does not allow third party apps to use multitouch so that is a known issue.

>Apps with the same codebase for Android/iPhone will automatically suck as far as the UI is concerned

Hardly. There is the graphics api called opengl that works on both iPhone and Android (and your ps3 and computer).

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