Apple's Developer Tools Turnaround 'Great News' For Adobe

cgriffin21 writes "Apple is being praised for loosening of some of the restrictions in its Application Developer Program license agreement that open the door for app developers to work in Flash for the Apple iPhone, iPad and other devices. And no one is happier about the change than Flash-maker Adobe itself. They wrote, 'This is great news for developers and we're hearing from our developer community that Packager apps are already being approved for the App Store. We do want to point out that Apple's restriction on Flash content running in the browser on iOS devices remains in place.'" Apple also received praise from Google over their reversal, which may have been prompted by an FTC probe. Reader Stoubalou adds that Apple shed more light on the app review process by publishing a list of guidelines (PDF) the violation of which may get an app rejected from the App Store.

Re:Praise?

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, that guy didn't have much of a choice. They put him in a crate, and loaded him in the back of a C130 headed for somewhere in Middleasternland. They'll be air dropping him with 1000 copies of the Koran and a lighter. Good luck with your book burning dude. I'm sure they'll all appreciate whatever the hell you were trying to say.

.. kinda like going to a redneck town, shooting a guys dog, stealing his truck, and fucking his wife. It's a good way to get killed. I guess there are other combinations there that'd work just about as well. fucking his dog, stealing his wife, shooting his truck?

Good news, everybody!

[bsDaemon]

I think this is the first time I've heard "flash support" and "good news" in the same sentence. My, how the times they are a changin'.

Re:Praise?

[zill]

One incites imminent lawless action, which precludes it from being considered constitutionally protected speech.

The other one forces all developers to learn Objective-C, which is arguably cruel and unusual punishment.

Re:Praise?

[Anonymous Coward]

Mom?

context

[RockGrumbler]

<badnews>GOOD NEWS EVERYONE! Flash can now port applications to the iphone!</badnews>

Re:Incoming sockpuppet troll odies/sopssa/SquarePi

[Pojut]

No...only spam.

Re:bad news...

[AndrewNeo]

Why would Flash take more battery than a normal app? Is there a suck_battery_life() function somewhere in the API nobody else is using but Adobe?

Re:Praise?

[geminidomino]

.. kinda like going to a redneck town, shooting a guys dog, stealing his truck, and fucking his wife. It's a good way to get killed. I guess there are other combinations there that'd work just about as well. fucking his dog, stealing his wife, shooting his truck?

And the worst part is when he writes a crappy country song about it, your family won't even get a cut!

Apple's way or the Highway (ok fine, or your way)

[StikyPad]

So lets see.. first there was "Edge is fine.. 3G is overkill," then "WE HAVE 3G!!" Then it was "nobody needs tethering," "Stop the presses: WE HAVE TETHERING*!!!! (*except in the US)", then "Multitasking is ridonkulous," "Oh, one more thing... WE HAVE MULTITASKING!!!"

And now Flash.

Steve Jobs is such a visionary.

Re:Apple's way or the Highway (ok fine, or your wa

[shutdown -p now]

Well, you have to admit that it takes a visionary to make a product that's functionally inferior to everything else on the market, and yet outsell everyone by such a large margin. And then roll out new versions with all those missing features, and sell it to all those poor schmucks who had already bought the original phone again and again!