OK, that sort of makes sense - the "sort of" because cross-platform compiled apps can already be accepted or rejected at the app store level. If money from developers was a major cash flow avenue, this would make total sense but compared to the app store, it's not, AFAIK. It seems it would be a financial benefit for Apple to have a larger pool of apps to choose to sell or not, regardless of how they were developed.
Here's another "settling old scores" theory, but between Apple and Adobe themselves as opposed to the Apple vs MS theory I recently suggested, "In 1996 when Apple was seemingly on the ropes, Adobe made a crucial business decision and one that is coming back to bite them in the ass. They declared that their primary development platform would be Windows; subsequently, every new application or major revision of a product was introduced for Windows first and followed months later, sometimes never at all, by a Mac version." http://innerdaemon.wordpress.com/2010/04/10/sorry-adobe-you-screwed-yourself/ ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dave Watts [[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2010 11:13 AM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] @#$% New iPhone Developer Agreement Bans the Use of Adobe’s Flash-to-iPhone Compiler > A lot of outrage hass been expressed, but there has to be a "why". Why? Because it makes economic sense for Apple, and it hurts a company that Steve Jobs doesn't care for right now. If you don't allow cross-platform tools to work, developers have to explicitly choose your platform. Right now, Apple has the market advantage - lots of people have and want iPhones, iPads, etc. So developers will choose to build for the Apple platform rather than building for multiple platforms, giving the App Store a continuing competitive advantage. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ http://training.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers, online, or onsite. _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
