http://www.runrev.com/company/runrev-blog/
It’s a sad day for RunRev, and all high level language (HLL) developers. In an unprecedented decree by the current King of the Hill, Steve Jobs has declared his tools, and only his tools, can be used to create compiled binary applications for his new favorite pet platform. The Hell with the rest of us. Making matters worse, he didn’t proclaim his intentions to do this until the fourth release of the SDK, thus allowing multiple millions of dollars in new iPhone initiatives and thousands of developers to believe they were right to develop for his platform. It’s not like he was starting some new platform from scratch, and set up the rules from the beginning.
Nope, he changed things when it suited him best– After he climbed the mountain and didn’t need the little people anymore. “Be damned with the rest of you– oh and thanks for your support, UP TO NOW,” is the message he is sending. He couldn’t care less. Screwing his partners, their customers and their customer’s customers.
Honestly, will anyone really be surprised when he does this yet again to Mac OS X developers?
My next phone will be an Android.
Honestly, Apple (jobs) have been doing it this way for 20 years.
It’s fool me once, shame on you. Fool me again, shame – whatever. Fool me again, hey cut it out! Repeat.
I was once a dedicated apple user, but I just got tired of waiting for that company to do the right thing. Even when doing the right thing would have HELPED the company. Jobs is a spiteful sort, I think.