Re: [fpc-devel] iphone development

2009-09-17 Thread dmitry boyarintsev
> This is an ARM system so it should support Mono. There is a Huge list of > (free and commercial) languages that support MONO, including Object > Pascal: Delphi Prism. Let's see: Individual developers (1 year): * iPhone dev program: 100 USD * Mono touch: 400 USD * Delphi Prism: 500 USD Tota

Re: [fpc-devel] iphone development

2009-09-17 Thread Michael Schnell
ABorka wrote: > I think many > people/companies would happily pay the price to have some nice language > for development. This is an ARM system so it should support Mono. There is a Huge list of (free and commercial) languages that support MONO, including Object Pascal: Delphi Prim. -Michael ___

Re: [fpc-devel] iphone development

2009-09-16 Thread ABorka
Well, according to Apple the number is 50M : http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/09/10/apple-music-event-numbers-30m-iphones-20m-ipod-touches-75k-apps-18b-downloads/ dmitry boyarintsev wrote: But $1K is peanuts if the finished application will be presented to 30-40 million people for download.

Re: [fpc-devel] iphone development

2009-09-16 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 16 Sep 2009, at 19:01, ABorka wrote: What is interesting that they seem to be able to really use a different language within the apple rules of iphone development. Of course they can, there are no rules against that. You just cannot distribute any adapted headers (so you have to rely on

Re: [fpc-devel] iphone development

2009-09-16 Thread dmitry boyarintsev
> But $1K is peanuts if the finished application will be presented to 30-40 > million people for download. I wonder what application can make 30-40 downloads? AFAIK there're less iPhones/Touches sold all over the world. If Jonas is right about Apple's license violation. Apple can simply ban your C

Re: [fpc-devel] iphone development

2009-09-16 Thread ABorka
l buy a macbook !!! -Message d'origine- De : fpc-devel-boun...@lists.freepascal.org [mailto:fpc-devel-boun...@lists.freepascal.org] De la part de dmitry boyarintsev Envoyé : mercredi 16 septembre 2009 08:03 À : FPC developers' list Objet : Re: [fpc-devel] iphone development Reading th

Re: [fpc-devel] iphone development

2009-09-16 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 16 Sep 2009, at 11:13, Jonas Maebe wrote: We don't distribute an interface to most iPhone frameworks, in part because the iPhone SDK licensing agreement forbids distributing any derivative works. The Mono guys apparently ignore this and do distribute a bunch of XML files generated from

Re: [fpc-devel] iphone development

2009-09-16 Thread dmitry boyarintsev
Here you're. Free iPhone dev tools: http://code.google.com/p/iphone-dev/ thanks, dmitry ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel

Re: [fpc-devel] iphone development

2009-09-16 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 16 Sep 2009, at 01:06, ABorka wrote: How is freepascal's iphone development compares to this latest mono way of creating native iphone apps? http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/09/monotouch-drops-net-into-apples-walled-app-garden.ars We don't distribute an interface to most iPh

RE: [fpc-devel] iphone development

2009-09-15 Thread Octal, Pocket MicroTechnics
Envoyé : mercredi 16 septembre 2009 08:03 À : FPC developers' list Objet : Re: [fpc-devel] iphone development > Reading the wiki it is not really a snap to set it up to be able to develop > iphone apps. There's no ready-to-use solution to start developing iPhone apps. > http://a

Re: [fpc-devel] iphone development

2009-09-15 Thread dmitry boyarintsev
> Reading the wiki it is not really a snap to set it up to be able to develop > iphone apps. There's no ready-to-use solution to start developing iPhone apps. > http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/09/monotouch-drops-net-into-apples-walled-app-garden.ars "As MonoTouch necessitates stati