Not true at all... Apple just needs access to source to insure safety and control over revenue schemes. If adobe would have opened its tech to inspection, apple would have welcomed it. What matters is the platform maintaining ultimate control and access over use and content channels. Does runrev want to compete at that level? No. So what is the problem? Let apple in. Give them what they want. Access to standardized source code. Certainly runrev would ask the same.
Randall -----Original Message----- From: Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:33 AM To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution@lists.runrev.com> Subject: Re: Check out Jerry's new videos -- REV to ObjC -> iPhone Chipp Walters wrote: >> On May 10, 2010, at 9:56 AM, Chipp Walters wrote: >>> The issue isn't whether Apple wants to outlaw reusing code >>> libraries. They don't. They want to outlaw cross platform >>> development. > > On May 10, 2010, at 11:59 AM, Bob Sneidar <bobs at twft.com> wrote: >> Really?? That is what Apple wants? > > Here's the guy Steve Jobs likes to point out is his mouthpiece, > on the subject. > > http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/middleware_and_section_311 And from Mr. Jobs himself; the public spanking he gave Adobe linked to from the front page of apple.com applies to all cross-platform developers: We know from painful experience that letting a third party layer of software come between the platform and the developer ultimately results in sub-standard apps and hinders the enhancement and progress of the platform. If developers grow dependent on third party development libraries and tools, they can only take advantage of platform enhancements if and when the third party chooses to adopt the new features. We cannot be at the mercy of a third party deciding if and when they will make our enhancements available to our developers. This becomes even worse if the third party is supplying a cross platform development tool. The third party may not adopt enhancements from one platform unless they are available on all of their supported platforms. Hence developers only have access to the lowest common denominator set of features. Again, we cannot accept an outcome where developers are blocked from using our innovations and enhancements because they are not available on our competitors platforms. <http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/> To the degree that those arguments apply at all to iPhone OS, they could also apply to OS X as well. But fortunately they don't hold much water under closer examination, as has been pointed out across the blogosphere and as many of us know from personal experience: 1. Without such cross-platform tools a minority OS might never have any apps at all across entire categories that are useful to its customers. 2. When an app that was written in Objective-C breaks, the motivation to address it promptly is only as strong as the sole developer's personal interest in it, but when a cross-platform tool has a bug there are thousands of developers demanding an immediate fix from the vendor of the tool they made it with. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution