Re:New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others
by strags on Thursday April 08, 2010 @08:39PM
(#1251521)
No. Apple knows exactly how much developers will put up with.
Re:New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others
by thought_alarm on Thursday April 08, 2010 @09:46PM
(#1251601)
Google, Microsoft, RIM, and Palm are wishing it was that easy.
Re:New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others
by cheald on Friday April 09, 2010 @03:48AM
(#1252161)
Apple is operating under an effective first-mover advantage. That conveys a lot of benefits that let them get away with a lot of abuses. If/when the other players in the market catch up, that won't hold quite as true.
Re:New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others
by jlees on Friday April 09, 2010 @12:50AM
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"It would seem Apple knows exactly what developers want."
Aye, money outweighs freedom even today.
Re:New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others
by gaius on Friday April 09, 2010 @08:49AM
(#1252521)
Money is freedom.
Re:New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others
by Hexstream on Friday April 09, 2010 @09:44AM
(#1252648)
Depends how many strings are attached to it.
Re:New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others
by leandroferreira on Thursday April 08, 2010 @08:54PM
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Apple only cares about their image. They make that "glow" effect on produvt to attract costumers, and developers go wwhere the people are.
The facts disagree.
The App Store model is unusual and it is not perfect. Few developers have any experience with Cocoa or Objective-C. Developers must use a Mac. iPhone software only runs on the iPhone and is not easily ported to other platforms.
Despite all of that, Apple has attracted developers to the App Store and the iPhone in numbers nobody would have predicted. Meanwhile, all other mobile platforms are rushing to duplicate the model.
It would seem Apple knows exactly what developers want.