... and people discussed Toyota's faulty accelerator because they were too 
lazy to ditch the car and walk. Meanwhile 13yr old kids are riding their bikes 
and taking the bus while people bemoan Toyota and complain about their faulty 
pedal.

Arguing that developers wishing to write cross-platform applications are lazy* 
must be a welcome break from spending your days developing applications in 
assembly, once for each instruction set of the target platforms.

I have little issue with Apple's TOS, since I never considered developing for 
any of their devices - I don't qualify on any aspect of the vertical market 
they require anyway. But I can recognise why the restriction to C/C++/Obj-C 
irks people, and that is there is no decent, plausible, *technical* reason for 
it. Everyone accepts that not every language is available for every platform, 
and they certainly don't expect the platform owner to provide it, but to 
actively restrict it purely from a business perspective, just strikes 
developers (at the very least, this one) as... unsavoury.


Regards,
Graham

* and on a Java mailing list, for extra irony.

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