[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.

[sketerpot]

Compete with them on Android, perhaps? </modest-proposal>

[colinplamondon]

The same way everyone else has- this shit's not rocket science. You just have to be on your game. It's about marketing, not features and languages.

[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]

Don't be daft. What makes you think Businesses have to treat everyone fairly? If business A wants to do some special deal with business B that gives B special access or the ability to do things that no one else is allowed to, that's just life. It's by no means evil.

[sunchild]

Selective enforcement implies a binary decision. This is rarely the case with legal matters: most of the time some discretion is required (even expected) as part of enforcement. This is what judges and juries are for under the common and statutory laws and in interpreting contract obligations.

[axod]

That's not evil lol

They're a business.