Coverage Expands About Apple Squashing HyperCard Clone for iPhone and iPad
Apple supporter and more recently, MacWorld journalist John Gruber on DaringFireball has given some coverage to how Apple has squashed RevMobile for iPhone and iPad. You’ll recall that RevMobile was to bring deployment of Runrev applications to iPhone and iPad. It was also the top topic for a day over on Slashdot as iPhone SDK Agreement Shuts Out HyperCard Clone.
Said Gruber:
The absence of such a high-level IDE is an opportunity for competing platforms. And, given the lack of windowing, the iPhone OS seems like a far better platform for something HyperCard-esque than the Mac ever was.
With Gruber’s previous support and blessing from Steve Jobs himself on his Apple positive stance on changes to the iPhone SDK, it is interesting that he makes even this statement. Since his DaringFireball blog doesn’t allow for comments, it is not clear to what extent his support for cross platform tools means. The dialog is intense over on Slashdot, with the topic remaining a top page affair even today. I think even the loyalties of some long time Mac OS focused vendors and developers are getting tested as developers realize that the issue isn’t Apple vs Flash or the red herring of Flash vs HTML 5, but Apple vs Cross Platform Development and Apple vs Developers.
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