Maybe it's because we feel Objective-C to be family. :) Maybe because of Apple's early connection to Parc and Smalltalk, who knows. On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Casimiro de Almeida Barreto < casimiro.barreto@gmail.com> wrote:
Em 26-05-2011 09:02, Igor Stasenko escreveu:
On 25 May 2011 20:45, Hilaire Fernandes <hilaire.fernandes@gmail.com> wrote:
I have no idea how hard it is to pass the apple check. It can indeed temper any effort doing a theme.
I think that i can express Apple's policy using single statement: - why you using language X for your project, if you can implement same in Objective C.
:)
Clearly Apple has a restrictive police on development and commercialization of products for the iOS platform. It is not related only to development language/environment but also content. Apple censors and decides what can and what cannot be put in "their" (should be their customers) tablets/phones/iPods (kind: no porno, no political, no certain kinds of violence, etc).
One thing that amazes me is that currently there are two contestants to the "Tablet & Smartphone World Grand Prix": iOS and Android but people in the SqueakVM/CogVM communities are centered only around a single "monopolist" manufacturer. IMHO it would be good to have SqueakVM/CogVM decently running in Android (>= 2.1).
In the long term I think Android will win this "championship".
My 2¢
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