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New restriction in iPhone 4 OS license agreement
4 points by ryanhuff on April 8, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment
Read the second sentence. This seems to be a means to focus developers to the platform, and away from code generators that allow developers to target multiple platforms.

3.3.1 Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs. Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine, and only code written in C, C++, and Objective-C may compile and directly link against the Documented APIs (e.g., Applications that link to Documented APIs through an intermediary translation or compatibility layer or tool are prohibited).




This is pretty bad. No more MonoTouch, nor any language innovation in software tools targeting iPhone etc. permitted.

To be frank, as an employee of a tools vendor which sells an IDE (Delphi) whose language is not one of Objective C, C or C++, this is pretty scummy - a low blow.

(I speak for myself, not for the company. of course.)




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