Apple loosens reins, allows 3rd party iOS dev tools with caveat

Ha! Court! I think not.

Any chance of a link to a law, statute, regulation, provision or treaty that prohibits or restricts Apple's ability to decide what they sell in their own online store?

Seriously, anything. I'll take a city ordinance at this point.

No-one has ever indicated which laws stop Apple from rejecting apps or from disallowing third-party app installation in its OS. Because, I suspect, there are none.

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correction: Macromedia / Adobe has has a long time to make flash perform well on a mac, and have miserably failed.

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1) Your tone of phrase does not make you sound like an experienced developer, merely a very blinkered and limited one

2) If you can't tell the difference between a CS5 packaged app and an XCode developed app that was not developed by you, and this app performs a useful task why would you care what tools were used to produce it?

What made apple change mind, in my opinion, can be said in two words: Unreal Script

Apple wants to take over the mobile gamming industry, and it needs powerful engines to do so. Restricting ActionScript also restricts Unreal Script, and with this goes away the leading industry class game engine.

Flash apps will, mostly, be crappy and what it's gonna judge them is not Apple, but the ultimate judge: the market.

@jordan, no he is just an ignorant fool, i've been coding in objective-c for 10+ years. Flash's development tools for the iPhone are pure garbage.

@martin, i've developed apps with both the REAL tools (xcode) and i've tried the new iphone app deployment in CS5 and its GARBAGE, it also equally yields garbage. Don't ASSUME that im making assumptions and haven't actually tried some of these other tools.

i hope there will be a way for the end-user to distinguish which apps are written the real way, and the pseudo apps made by the horrid cross compilers by adobe and whoever else makes those piles of crap.

im not happy about this at all personally, i like loosening restrictions but now were going to see a deluge of crap apps by developers who are either

1) too cheap to own a mac
2) too lazy to learn a real programming language

there is enough crap apps in the app store, this is going to make it much much worse.

... I swear a pig just flew past my window!

Adobe breathes a sigh of relief, as Apple releases the stranglehold on Flash.

Personally I think Steve has done a good job of pushing Adobe to concentrate on what they do best – namely make tools to create content and not tools to deliver content.

These App store guidelines are just making Apple look like they are trying to be as awkward as humanly possible. Misspelt names mean rejection? No copying us? The need to be spot on- Not too complex yet not under very good. I mean come on Apple you are not being particularly friendly to developers now are you.