RevMobile and Apple's new iPhone SDK Agreement

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26 points·not_an_alien··8 comments

would love a little more details on this crucial line: "Steve Jobs has now rejected our proposal and made it clear that he has no interest in having revMobile available on the iPhone or iPad in any form."

Sure, but how is this line crucial? Do you disagree with the analysis that 3.3.1 clearly bans his company's application?

To me, his analysis is less important then the explanation, details, circumstances, etc. of Steve Job's rejection of their proposal.

Well, I think there has been a kind of "wait and see" attitude to see if 3.3.1 is really about the language it was written in or if it is just a means to ban flash.

We know PhoneGap is in which is designed for cross-platform, but only uses Javascript in Webviews. What about Titanium which creates an xcode project?

I for one am really curious for any official information on the application of 3.3.1 and that line seems to imply official information.

PhoneGap is explicitly OK according to the requirements, Titanium isn't.

There's no wait and see, it's "build and pray".

Pity - I have been a fan of RunRev for years. Their software is great and their customer service even better. Maybe it's time that the Linux/Android wing of their products becomes the main focus.

Apple does not seem to care that they are losing the great grandchild of what made their earlier computers so useful - HyperCard. Oh well.

revMo was the wrong product anyway; what's needed is a HyperCard-like dev environment that runs on the iPad and can open stacks-or-whatever from other users. I hope they get to work on that.

Anything like that has always been prohibited by Apple's license.

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