All you need is a $99 developers licence and *a Mac computer. *Suddenly the price goes up considerably (particularly for those of us in Windows-land or Linux-land)....I'm not aware of any iPhone dev environment that runs on anything other than Mac.
Regards, Saul On 13 April 2010 02:53, Joshua Thorp <jth...@redfish.com> wrote: > Apple has already limited the languages allowed onto the iPhone to these > four. Beyond running JS in the safari browser they do not allow end users > to have programmatic access to the phone (though the developers license is > only $99, a cheap price to pay for a kid to get to develop for the phone, > no?). > > So its against the terms to put Flash on the phone because this would allow > people to program for the phone outside of Apple's control. Adobe has a > work around in the works so that a flash program could be compiled to a > "native executable", see > http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcs5/appsfor_iphone/. It wouldn't > allow for running arbitrary flash files off the web but would allow > developers to re-use their app code and go through the apple market process. > > This move by Apple closes a loophole that Adobe was about to take advantage > of. > > It is interesting that the programs must "originally" have been written in > one of these languages. I wonder if that would mean you couldn't write code > that was used to generated Objective-C code? Processing does something like > this where a processing sketch is preprocessed into a standard java classes > which can then be compiled. I'd bet Adobe would prefer not to have all > their code be exposed like that anyway but does the term "originally > written" keep others from doing this? > > --joshua > > > On Apr 12, 2010, at 10:30 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: > > > I'm curious what the deeper story is. Google limits their languages to > C/C++, Java, Python and Javascript. Is this similar or just a grudge with > Adobe? Or is it part of the HTML5 spec which offers a considerable > simplification re: plugins etc. > > > > Although Flash is a variant of JS, is there more to the story? I.e. Does > it, or it's libraries, demand interfaces to more of the hardware than usual? > I confess to not really groking Flash .. It seams to be much more than JS > and some libraries. Air and other frameworks go beyond what I'd consider > just a language. > > > > I also note Java is not allowed. > > > > ---- Owen > > > > > > I am an iPad, resistance is futile! > > > > On Apr 12, 2010, at 9:02 AM, Stephen Guerin <step...@sfcomplex.org> > wrote: > > > >> Apple is dictating apps must be written in approved languages. > >> "Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or > JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine, and only code written > in C, C++, and Objective-C may compile and directly link against the > Documented APIs (e.g., Applications that link to Documented APIs through an > intermediary translation or compatibility layer or tool are prohibited)." > >> > >> Wasn't newspeak an official language :-) > >> > >> from wikipedia: > >> "Newspeak is closely based on English but has a greatly reduced and > simplified vocabulary and grammar. This suits the totalitarian regime of the > Party, whose aim is to make any alternative thinking—"thoughtcrime", or > "crimethink" in the newest edition of Newspeak—impossible by removing any > words or possible constructs which describe the ideas of freedom, rebellion > and so on." > >> > >> http://www.gizmag.com/apple-iphone-os-4-adobe/14781/ > >> http://theflashblog.com/?p=1888 > >> > >> > >> > >> ============================================================ > >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > >> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > > > ============================================================ > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > -- Saul Caganoff Enterprise IT Architect Mobile: +61 410 430 809 LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/scaganoff
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