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iPhone SDK may block Firefox, Ruby, Python and several other frameworks

by Nicholas Montgomery on Mar 13, 2008 at 04:42 PM

iPhone SDK may block Firefox, Ruby, Python and several other frameworks

We’ve all heard about how good the iPhone SDK is, but what about the downsides. Some major developers have been wanting to create apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch, but Firefox, Java and apps that run in the background may not be allowed. These highly valued apps may not be allowed to Apple’s Published APIs agreement.

“An Application may not itself install or launch other executable code by any means, including without limitation through the use of a plug-in architecture, calling other frameworks, other APIs or otherwise.”

This could mean that unless an app is using webkit, it may not be able to run. Mozilla developer Rob Sayre wrote a blog post about how Apple is banning Firefox, SpiderMonkey, Lisp, Lua, Ruby, Python, Rhino, Java, Opera, .NET and all the apps that rely on those frameworks and several others. This would mean that popular apps such as Photoshop, Word, Excel, Flash, Freetype, Zork, Quake, Unreal and Second Life would not run on the iPhone.

Though we do have to remember the “Beta” part of the name. Let’s hope that Apple will fix this flaws to block many technologies to run on the device.

Via [AppleInsider]

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