It's interesting to see what will happen to Unity3D. This great casual game development tool offers support for exporting to iPhone. They are hit by Apple's new developer license - because they generate code - but apparently, apps generated by Unity3D do end up in the Apple store...
Now.. Unity 3D is also planning to support Android in the future. I wouldn't be surprised that as soon as you can export games for both iPhone and Android with a simple click, that Apple would prohibit Unity3D generated games, as they have the power with their license agreement, who knows. See e.g. http://blogs.unity3d.com/2010/04/10/unity-and-the-iphone-os-4-0/ The strange thing is: Apple supports HTML5. But with HTML5 one would be able to write (and publish and sell) all kinds of Flash-like games directly on the internet, without Apple having any kind of control over what content gets on the iPhone... So I really don't get it... On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 3:23 AM, John Meacham <j...@repetae.net> wrote: > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 08:41:02PM -0400, Pierre-Etienne Meunier wrote: >> > If this ever gets to court, we may have a criterion imposed on us, >> > possibly one as silly as the distinction between programs and >> > algorithms said to be made in patent-land. >> >> I really do agree with your post, but what I dont get is why Apple does not >> intent anything against George Hotz, who publicly acknowledged having >> disassembled his iphone for performing FPGA black magic on it, and would sue >> someone for refusing objects and mallocs in programming. >> >> This makes me wonder if they really have the legal means of doing anything. > > Sure, they have the legal means to simply deny your program access to > the App store. They don't need to sue you, you did nothing wrong by > writing a haskell->c compiler and writing a game in it. They just won't > distribute it. They are already under no obligation to distribute your > work or make it available. > > John > > -- > John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈ - http://notanumber.net/ > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
