Hi Ben, the "forget the iPhone" just put you away from 85 Million users that have an iPhone/iPod Touch ! and in a business line, *85 million users* is something that can't be taken easily.
my company was about to buy a Professional license of MonoTouch on my request, but I think I'll have to continue the ObjC programming. Bruno Alexandre [web] www.balexandre.com [twitter] http://twitter.com/balexandre On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Ben Joldersma <[email protected]> wrote: > Is anyone commenting on the irony of this? For years, Mono & Novell are > attacked by the FOSS community on the grounds that MS will sue people who > use Mono. And now it's Apple that is slapping down legal constraints on > Mono?? > > Love the idea of Novell/Mono going strong after mobile. But forget the > iPhone IMHO. I'd much prefer to see these efforts going into Android. An > open source OS for an open source language runtime. Makes much better sense > to me. > > -- > ben joldersma > craftsman > http://skullsquad.com > [o]: 206.973.8003 > [c]: 206.349.2852 > > > On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 9:48 AM, balexandre <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> We all are in the same boat, Novell wrote something regarding it and >> that's >> the only thing we (users of MonoTouch) know by now. >> >> http://www.mono-project.com/newstouch/archive/2010/Apr-09.html >> >> My company decided that we should embrace iPhone and the iPad with 2 apps >> for Business (the OK was given this thursday after my 101 attempt from me >> to >> tell them that we should do this) and we were about to buy a Professional >> License of MonoTouch. >> >> Monday when I arrive the company I need to tell them to hold on as I only >> did 3 apps in ObjC / XCode and I'm still staring the new language (Memory >> management in the year 2010 is an absurd!) >> >> :-( >> >> even did an iCal alike to use in jQTouch for later use it to test >> PhoneGap. >> (http://code.google.com/p/jqtouch-ical/) >> >> So... Now I have no idea what should I do... well, I do, learn ObjC, but >> that's not what I really wanted :-/ >> >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://n4.nabble.com/iPhone-SDK-4-0-prohibits-Mono-MonoTouch-future-tp1819493p1835491.html >> Sent from the Mono - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> _______________________________________________ >> Mono-list maillist - [email protected] >> http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list >> > >
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