thanks john! On Apr 16, 2010, at 8:09 PM, John M McIntosh wrote:
> Let me give everyone an update on what is going on with Scratch.app, I've > seen lots of discussion and speculation flow by on the esug, scratch and > pharo lists, some of it correct, and some of it incorrect. > > First, Scratch.app was remove from sale in the app store because the Scratch > programming language is an interpreted language, and it's not on the approved > interpreted language list. My understanding is that Apple has not yet > rejected apps because they are "made" with a particular language. The > rejection is solely due to the result of Scratch being a non approved > 'interpreted" language. > > Second, I drafted a letter titled: "Rejecting an app with foundations in the > Dynabook vision" and posted it to: https://devforums.apple.com/thread/46425 > > At this time, this letter is not for public viewing since I want to have more > discussion with Apple and the paid Apple developer community. It seems having > public rage about the unfairness about what Apple is doing just makes Apple > less receptive to dialog. I would ask the community not to cross post my > letter anywhere until we have had more discussions with Apple. As an example > this morning there was talk with a member of the App review team about having > this matter ending up on Phil Shiller's desk. > > Third, I sent a copy of the letter to Steve Jobs. He did respond. Our > incomplete conversation is private, no solution or decision has been reached, > and due to Apple's earnings reports coming up next tuesday I don't foresee > any activity on the matter until after that event. > > Fourth, I have interest & support from Dr Alan Kay, Dr Mitchel Resnick, and > others, I think people do take the matter about the freedom to write > applications in a language of their choosing and using a particular > implementation (interpreted, JIT, compiled) seriously, so I hope movement > with Apple on the general topic will occur shortly. > > Once Apple's management team has made a response I'm sure you will all hear > about it. > > -- > =========================================================================== > John M. McIntosh <john...@smalltalkconsulting.com> Twitter: squeaker68882 > Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd. http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com > =========================================================================== > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > esug-l...@lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/listinfo/esug-list _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
