Sony's next-gen application platform built on Objective C/GNUStep

Re:Sony's next-gen application platform built on Objective C... by aufreak3 on Wednesday November 24, 2010 @11:26PM (#1939366)

Site says "SNAP development is currently on hold" (http://snap.sonydeveloper.com/). Dead on arrival?

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Re:Sony's next-gen application platform built on Objective C... by postfuturist on Thursday November 25, 2010 @03:02AM (#1939685)

There were some download links for an SDK and instructions. I didn't download anything right away (stupidly), and when I came back a couple hours later, all that stuff was replaced by this "currently on hold" message. Sigh.

EDIT: You can see info about SDK stuff on Google's cached version of some pages.

EDIT 2: You can still download the SDK here: https://snap.sonydeveloper.com/common/pages/documents/view/?...

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Re:Sony's next-gen application platform built on Objective C... by Leynos on Thursday November 25, 2010 @05:53AM (#1939934)

Do you think they may have run into legal issues with Apple once news of this project started to spread?

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Re:Sony's next-gen application platform built on Objective C... by aufreak3 on Thursday November 25, 2010 @11:39AM (#1940533)

Unlikely, since they're based on GNUStep.

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Re:Sony's next-gen application platform built on Objective C... by Leynos on Thursday November 25, 2010 @06:03PM (#1941199)

GNUstep being more or less a re-implementation of Cocoa (and prior to that OpenStep). I'm not suggesting any copyrights have been infringed upon (indeed, I'm an avid user of GNUstep), but I always wondered if GNUstep would fall foul of the same kind of patent threats that Mono detractors seem to feel it is at risk from if it ever gained commercial traction. In fact, Apple has already made legal threats against manufacturers of Android phones, Android having nothing to do with Cocoa or Cocoa Touch.

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