Re: [pygame] pygame on iPhone

["Forrest Voight" <voights@xxxxxxxxx>]

It seems the NDA was dropped, just a little while ago, FYI.

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 7:22 AM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jack Nutting wrote:
>
>> However, the fact is that what you *can* write with, Objective-C, is
>> not too shabby at all.
>
> You can write it, and maybe run it on your own phone,
> but nobody else can run it unless you go begging to
> Apple for approval (and pay them for the privilege).
> Or unless they're willing to hack their phone and
> risk the ire of Apple and/or AT&T.
>
>> So far, Apple's position on the iPhone has been a continual
>> loosening/expansion of what is possible...   I am pretty hopeful
>> about the prospects of Apple removing the onerous clause that rules
>> out language interpreters in the iPhone.
>
> That would help, but to become truly enlightened,
> they'll have to abandon all attempt to restrict what
> people can run. It's that fundamental attitude that
> disappoints me more than the details of the restrictions.
>
> I rather like Google's "Don't be evil" motto, and wish
> Apple would take it to heart as well.
>
> --
> Greg
>
>