Looks Like Good News For Titanium Apps
Apple relaxed their mobile app restrictions, so your app is good as long as it doesn't try to download any code (webkit html/js doesn't count):
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/09/09statement.html
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Yep, good move by Apple - the situation and lack of clarity from them was frankly getting ridiculous. This means more developers for Titanium Mobile!
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At the moment apple's new terms have no benefit for Titanium Mobile as it has been legal all the time.
But the new rules can be important for Titanium Mobiles Future, the developers can research new ways for us to write and optimzie the apps. One possibility would be integreating googles V8 javascript compiler, this would make it possible to compile javascript instead of interpreting and coupling it more with objective-c. At the moment the javascript<->objective-c is a little bit slow, with v8 it would be blazingly fast allowing more and more features to exist, for example a fast game engine
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At the moment apple's new terms have no benefit for Titanium Mobile as it has been legal all the time.
But the new rules can be important for Titanium Mobiles Future, the developers can research new ways for us to write and optimzie the apps. One possibility would be integreating googles V8 javascript compiler, this would make it possible to compile javascript instead of interpreting and coupling it more with objective-c. At the moment the javascript<->objective-c is a little bit slow, with v8 it would be blazingly fast allowing more and more features to exist for example a fast game engine
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For those of us that remember the dark days back in the spring, this is indeed tremendous news and whilst it's probably got more to do with commercial considerations than the rights & wrongs of any principle, who cares!
I'll bet the phones will be ringing off the hook in Mountain View, CA.
Chris.
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Hey guys -
Thank you for all your support. Seriously, you guys have been kicking some serious butt while all this happened. I can tell you that, behind the scenes, we're making huge, huge investments in the platform across the board. I know that sometimes this isn't apparent, but over the next couple months, you'll see some gargantuan announcements.
And all that is because you keep pushing the platform forward and evangelize from the rooftops whenever you can. No matter what.
So, thank you.