-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 4/9/10 23:05 , Karsten Silz wrote: > > The one interesting bit is that this license change only kicks in > with iPhone OS 4. Apple could have changed the terms now, so why > wait for a couple of months? There is this theory that the > multi-tasking coming in iPhone OS 4 relies on analyzing the apps > and fails if they run interpreted / alien code: > http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/04/09/apples_prohibition_of_flash_built_apps_in_iphone_4_0_related_to_multitasking.html I > think it could be or not feasible from the technical point of view, but the legal thing is enough as a showstopper. Who would buy a software production tool made by Adobe (or by others, since the thing is not directly aimed against Adobe, but against all-the-world-outside-Apple) knowing that it produces software products that are illegal?
BTW, Apple doesn't need to embed a check in the multitasker. They have got the monopoly in the store, they could even deploy some very sophisticated pattern detection algorithm on a supercomputer to filter the applications submitted to the store. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people [email protected] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAku/mSwACgkQeDweFqgUGxexQACgkZmldV0iJ1214qCM4pLo1S+6 FWQAoKsk5lauW/vaQFnyto/aH/ptw86j =E7ol -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
