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What a crock!

Having written about two Basic apps for Palm OS (Garnet) today I noticed this. But sadly, you're not going to see it anytime soon as Apple in their infinite wisdom have decided that it is a 'platform'!!!

I can't see how that can be true, but there you have it. Sad isn't it.

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7 comments:

Anonymous said...

A little, but its pretty clear from the SDK licenses that you aren't allowed to make stuff like this...

Anything that would be an interpretive runtime programming environment is a definite no-no according to their license.

so... its a bummer that these guys did all the work (app dev, manual, website, etc), only to be rejected. But they really should have known...

ashley said...

I know you're right, but it isn't really a runtime environment, it is more like a little toy, and apps like Bento and Tapforms and Handbase are doing very similar things.

Unknown said...

what's to stop them selling it themselves?

gregor said...

Pretty stupid to disallow this though- it doesn't provide anything JavaScript doesn't already provide. In fact, you could write a basic interpreter in JavaScript if you were so inclined.

I thought the restrictions on languages would be around those that allow deeper access to the os- like to provide sound. This Basic doesn't seem to provide that, so I don't get why they bother to disallow it.

Anonymous said...

I think that Apple should've let this one in. Maybe it could be a web app? They can't get offended by that can they?

Anonymous said...

I would love to see this on my iPhone.

Anonymous said...

Web app time here we come