Scratch

They removed it?

*thud*

Yes, I fell off my chair.

Good one.

Maybe We can release a third-party app not available at the app store.

That app couldn't run much anyways, I could've bought 4 songs with that.

Steve Jobs should stop being such a jerk anyways.

That's stupid.

Really? I still have the app downloaded. Still I hate it anyways. It's a waste of money.
plus apple *? You allow games that are HORRIBLE but you dont allow scratch? [Innapropriate remark against apple, even though they deserved it removed by lonwol]

thats stupid, first the ipad and now this?  apple is going down hill.
the ipad took the whole purpose of an ipod (making it pocket sized) and got rid of it
and this is a complete waste of time and effort.

This. 

archmage wrote:

I saw this coming. Apple has banned all third party software from creating ipod apps. What they did to scratch was nothing compared to what they did to Adobe. Flash CS5's biggest feature was the ability to make flash programs for the iphone and because Apple has banned this the usefulness of flash CS5 has gone down a lot.

Its a business decision. Apple wants to be in complete control of what can make apps for their machines so they ban all app creators except their own. Of course, they can take all the hate from developers because the mindless Apple legions will still love them.

Heh. Apple is losing my respect, even though they already did. So your saying that they RELEASED, an app maker, and LET people create there own apps, but now they wont even let them distibute it? Talk about power hungry.

Apple has made many bad choices in the past and are going to make many more in the future.

Just because Steve Jobs isn't smart because he couldn't get into MIT 

Double Win

lonwol wrote:

archmage wrote:

I saw this coming. Apple has banned all third party software from creating ipod apps. What they did to scratch was nothing compared to what they did to Adobe. Flash CS5's biggest feature was the ability to make flash programs for the iphone and because Apple has banned this the usefulness of flash CS5 has gone down a lot.

Its a business decision. Apple wants to be in complete control of what can make apps for their machines so they ban all app creators except their own. Of course, they can take all the hate from developers because the mindless Apple legions will still love them.

Heh. Apple is losing my respect, even though they already did. So your saying that they RELEASED, an app maker, and LET people create there own apps, but now they wont even let them distibute it? Talk about power hungry.

No, this is a recent development from Apple that occurred in the last week or so. Probably as a response to flash CS5. At the time the scratch app was made 3rd party creation tools were welcome.

And Apple is more power hungry then you think. They ban all apps that are similar to theirs so that their apps have no competition.

Last edited by archmage (2010-04-14 22:52:06)

archmage wrote:

Penguinsrock wrote:

adriangl wrote:

Apple has made many bad choices in the past and are going to make many more in the future.

Just because Steve Jobs isn't smart because he couldn't get into MIT 

Double Win

And probably worse ones as well. *nod, nod*

Actually this was a good business decision as they are creating a monopoly on the software creation tools (which only run on Macs). However, what is good for Apple as a business is bad for software developers which I guess would include scratch users.

If you really want to tell Apple that you don't like this stop buying iTunes cards and send them an email telling them they have lost a customer because of their policies.

This whole deal is much bigger than just scratch.

Yup. A lot of people hate Apple 

But seriously, not 3rd party apps? Has Apple gone insane(well, more than already)?

There will always be people that don't pay for intellectual property but Apple is doing pretty well in the music department being the biggest music retailer in the US. They passed Wal-Mart as the biggest music retailer about 2 years ago.