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Apple Relaxes iOS Development Tool Restrictions

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the no-complaints-here dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Earlier this year Apple caused major upset among developers by updating the iPhone developer program license with clause 3.3.1. It basically stopped the use of cross-platform compilers, meaning Adobe Flash could not be used to develop an app for the App Store. The move also put into doubt which other development platforms could be used and generally caused a lot of confusion. Apple has just significantly relaxed that policy and allowed for the use of development tools, as long as 'the resulting apps do not download any code.'"

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  1. Re:Problem by Blakey+Rat · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Look at the differences between the Orange Box version of Team Fortress 2 and the PC version.

    Wha? The Orange Box *is* the PC version. It's also the name of the console versions. Are you saying that if I bought the Orange Box on PC, it has different features than buying Team Fortress 2 alone?

    Or... what the fuck are you saying?

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    Comment of the year
  2. Re:What's wrong with issuing an update? by BasilBrush · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If* that were true, they'd be screwed anyway. It's likely to take more than a day to prepare a quality release and test it. Introduce a bad bug and it'll do you far more harm.

    (* It's not.)