New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others

Re:New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others by MichaelGG on Thursday April 08, 2010 @07:05PM (#1251332)

I am not sure that it'll be exceedingly difficult to determine if an app was compiled using another tool, and not written in Objective-C.

I'd expect many languages and frameworks are going to have many very signature functions and patterns of code. If Apple decides to enforce this, they won't have a hard time.

On top of that, if they miss it, and let a bunch of apps in, then later on determine those apps were crosscompiled, they can revoke the current versions and block that developer...

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Re:New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others by jrockway on Thursday April 08, 2010 @07:18PM (#1251372)

But of course, this makes for unhappy users too. "I just lost the $5.99 I paid for that app!"

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Re:New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others by Bones on Friday April 09, 2010 @12:31AM (#1251875)

NetShare users kept using the app months after Apple pulled it. I think people finally stopped using it to tether because an update finally broke it, not because Apple deleted it off people’s phones…

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Re:New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others by maxharris on Thursday April 08, 2010 @07:25PM (#1251388)

Easy - they can and should just refund the money if they take the app away.

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