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Licensed C64 Emulator Rejected From App Store

Posted by Soulskill on from the insufficient-quantities-of-hip dept.

Miasik.Net writes "A fully licensed Commodore 64 iPhone emulator has been rejected from the App Store. The excuse Apple used is a clause in the SDK agreement which doesn't allow for applications that run executable code. It seems Sega is exempt from that clause, because some of its games on the iPhone are emulators running original ROM code."

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  1. Re:Editorialise much ? by spacefiddle · · Score: 0, Troll

    Dear Troll,

    Did you even read the article? The nod they got from Apple, and the minor detail wherein other apps already violate this selectively-enforced clause, giving the developer the idea that they'd be excused as well..?

    Add more "quotes" to your "comment," it makes you seem "wiser." :P

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  2. Obligatory Edsger Dijkstra by QuoteMstr · · Score: 0, Troll

    It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

  3. Hypocrites by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 0, Troll

    Sega is exempt from that clause, because some of its games on the iPhone are emulators running original ROM code.

    So Apple is exposed yet again as a bunch of hypocrites who set one set of rules for everyone, until they decide to change them to favor a particular friend. And this is news why...?

    Maybe someday users will tire of Apple being their un-appointed nanny, but that day is not today.

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