Thanks John and Alan for your efforts.

Noury
On 11 juin 2010, at 07:43, John M McIntosh wrote:

> Well I was hoping to have a few more days to settle things. 
> 
> The Smalltalk community should take a deep bow and thank Alan Kay for 
> spending many hours talking to the highest level of people at Apple about the 
> importance of the iPad as a platform to teach computational theory to people 
> of all ages. 
> 
> So how does this all sort out? Well I don't know, nothing has officially 
> changed, yet...
> 
> But I'm at WWDC this week, I did talk to the manager of the App Store (they 
> were expecting me) and I do have an appointment with Apple next week to 
> discuss the "Unless otherwise approved by Apple in writing"
> 
> Once that happens I will let everyone know the outcome, Apple is working what 
> the approval process is, and I think the Smalltalk & Scratch community will 
> be the first players in the door for Apple's embracing of interpreted 
> languages for educational purposes on the iPad. 
> 
> I must publicly thank the Smalltalk and Scratch communities for being patient 
> and polite in waiting for the issue to resolve itself, and true thanks should 
> be directed to Alan for his behind the scenes efforts in ensuring the 
> Computer Science community has equal footing with the language arts & music 
> departments for apps on the iPad.
> 
> I caution everyone that we're not there yet, but let's see what happens next 
> week, so don't open the champaign bottles yet. 
> 
> On 2010-06-10, at 7:40 PM, Lawson English wrote:
> 
>> Does this change the status of Scratch on iphone any?
>> 
>> http://www.appleoutsider.com/2010/06/10/hello-lua/
>> 
>> 
>> Lawson
> 
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