Guys, this isn't the right place to discuss this, I'm afraid. I recommend using 
an official channel such as the Apple Developer Relations.

Thanks :-)

Laurent

On Apr 9, 2010, at 11:16 PM, steve ross wrote:

> I don't know whether anyone will provide a rationale for the contract 
> language, but here's an interesting analysis of it:
> 
> http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/why_apple_changed_section_331
> 
> Apple makes a lot of smart calls that seem stupid or selfish at first. A 
> number of folks on Twitter have jumped on this contract language as a stupid 
> and/or selfish call. I just don't know.
> 
> Steve Ross
> 
> 
> On Apr 9, 2010, at 10:23 PM, Matthew Winter wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I asked the same question via Twitter, however I do not expect to get an 
>> answer at this stage.
>> 
>> If my understanding is correct about why Apple has done this, in that it is 
>> more due to "the need to support the new multitasking APIs in iPhone 4.0. 
>> The system will now be evaluating apps as they run in order to implement 
>> smart multitasking. It can't do this if apps are running within a runtime or 
>> are cross compiled with a foreign structure that doesn't behave identically 
>> to a native C/C++/Obj-C app."
>> 
>> Then based on this, I see no reason why they should not let MacRuby be 
>> blessed as this essentially is making use of the same Objective-C runtime 
>> and API's.
>> 
>> There are now quite a few ways to develop apps for the iPhone & iPad that do 
>> not involve Obj-C. I wonder if it is just the case of recompiling the base 
>> libraries or making the base libraries aware of Apple's multitasking needs, 
>> and then for each to be blessed by Apple, or am I being way to optimistic 
>> that this will happen.
>> 
>> Regards
>> Matthew Winter
>> 
>> 
>> On 10/04/2010, at 11:37 AM, Rich Morin wrote:
>> 
>>> I suspect that no Apple employee will be able to comment on
>>> this, but I _really_ hope MacRuby will be among the blessed
>>> languages for the iPad, etc.
>>> 
>>> -r
>>> -- 
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