PhoneGap: Open Source Tool for Building 'Native' Mobile Apps (iPhone, Android) with Javascript
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It appears that Apple is rejecting iPhone apps built with PhoneGap.
http://groups.google.com/group/phonegap/browse_thread/thread...
Maybe that person just got unlucky and had a bad app tester.
PhoneGap is open source. There is no "signature" that they can use to know that you incorporated code from it. They would have to disavow their own APIs in order to stop people from using it.
Sucks that Apple is so uptight about this though. Reminds me of the clueless FaceBook staff that rejected most of my ad buys but then a week later I see an influx of ads that are similar if not worse (irrelevant/shady)!
To quote Kotaku, "...the phone itself might be developer friendly, but Apple is not". ( http://kotaku.com/5181471/apple-putting-the-squeeze-on-iphon... )
It'd be interesting to see a bake-off between the OtherLanguage->iPhoneApp frameworks. The one by 380 North looks particularly interesting, though I'm not quite sure why you'd ditch Objective-C for a language that looks almost exactly like it (until they build in converters for other platforms..)
I'd be curious to hear what they're doing too.
It's doubtful you'll see Hecl for the iphone, as I'm not interested in platforms that are that restricted, don't allow interpreters, and in any case, it's based on Java. It does, however, run on all the zillions of J2ME phones that are out there, even if they're not the 'latest and greatest' thing.