Apple now has turned to the Dark Side of The Force
posted April 9th, 2010 by Constantin Ehrenstein in Flash Platform News
Yesterday, Apple announced a significant tweak to their iPhone OS developer license agreement, Section 3.3.1. Changes are highlighted:
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).
That’s pretty much a declaration of war against Adobe. They’re just days away from releasing an amazing Flash CS5 release featuring… *drumroll*… a packager for iPhone OS, targeted at iPhone, iPad, and iPad. (more…)