[tumult]

The elves will leave Middle Earth, and they will truly be left with nothing but fart apps. They need to fix this clause, fast.

[khelloworld]

As much as I'd like to agree with you, that is simply not going to happen. Do you seriously think companies/developers like EA, Cultured Code, Omni Group etc are going to leave the app store just because apps written in Scheme or Actionscript or .Net are not welcome on the app store?

Again, as much as I'd like to agree with you, none of the prominent app developers are going to be leaving anytime soon. And, as for people who make Farting apps, they probably wont care anyways because use Objective-C or Actionscript, the apps are rather simple anyways. The efficiency of writing code probably wont matter to them.

[daeken]

EA's games are in violation of this rule, due to using Lua. Think again.

[axod]

Then either EA will rewrite it, or they'll pay Apple a shedload of money to forget about it.

They certainly won't start whining about it.

[tumult]

No, Apply will just selectively turn a blind eye when it's convenient for them, and arbitrarily apply the restriction in other cases. Evil.

[colinplamondon]

Expected. There's a three tier system- Tier A partners like EA, Tier B developers that are preferred by Apple, like Cultured Code, Omni, and TapTapTap, and Tier C developers, who Apple doesn't do anything special for. Kick ass for a sustained period of time and you can get into Tier B, be a multi-billion dollar company and you're Tier A.

Awesome thing is, though, that you can reasonably compete as a Tier C developer with Tier B and Tier A developers, it's just that they get a head start with being featured. That's surmountable, so it's not a big deal.

[tumult]

How am I supposed to catch up with them if they already are allowed to use features and languages and thought processes that I'm not? It makes no sense.

[sunchild]

That's called exercising discretion. It happens under the real laws too. I don't think you know what "evil" means.

[tumult]

You are wrong, selective enforcement is evil.

[axod]

That's not evil lol

They're a business.

[axod]

Definitely. After all, other closed restrictive platforms such as games consoles only contain rubbish.

For every clojure zealot, there are probably 10 objective-c developers who will be happy with less competition.

[tumult]

This is a mistaken claim. Naughty Dog, for example, uses a precompilation phase in their games involving Lisp that builds into machine and graphics code. Most games, too, have a dynamic runtime in the form of a customized scripting engine in their game, tailored to the needs of their game. Sometimes this is done with a pre-existing language like Lua, sometimes it's built from scratch, like UnrealScript (Unreal1 - 3 engines). All of these are now banned.

[smallblacksun]

Interpreters that run on the iphone have always been banned.

[tumult]

Before, it was just interpreters that could load in external code, i.e. user input or the internet. Now, they are all banned.