On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 5:45 AM, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm quite disgusted by Apple's whole approach to the iPhone, > and because of it, I currently have little interest in buying > an iPhone or attempting any iPhone development. The restrictive > atmosphere would just suck all the fun out of it for me.
I can see where you're coming from. I cut my teeth on game programming with pygame, I love python, and I'd love to be able to write iPhone games with python. However, the fact is that what you *can* write with, Objective-C, is not too shabby at all. Compared to the previously available widely-spread mobile development technologies (j2me), Objective-C is a breath of fresh air. Considering that the system has libraries for image-handling, input, opengl, and audio, you've got a pretty high-level interface to most of what pygame/sdl gives you right from the start. The only major bits of pygame-style functionality that aren't present out of the box are things like sprite groups and collision detection, which I implemented myself for the game I'm working on in just an hour or two. > My recommendation is to forget about the iPhone and get behind > Android instead. And let Apple know clearly why you're doing it. > Maybe if they see that they're turning large numbers of their > friends into enemies, they'll rethink their attitude. Or maybe > losing enough iPhone sales to Google phones will do it. Perhaps. So far, Apple's position on the iPhone has been a continual loosening/expansion of what is possible. For example, remember that less than a year ago, the official Apple line was that the only officially-sanctioned development was going to be web apps, but there's clearly been a huge about-face there. I am pretty hopeful about the prospects of Apple removing the onerous clause that rules out language interpreters in the iPhone. -- // jack // http://www.nuthole.com
