In attempting to harm Adobe and Google, Apple is hurting the whole industry, by putting the breaks[sic] on language development. No language more advanced than the three listed are allowed. No Haskell. No Ocaml. No Clojure. No Lisp. No Ruby. No Python. No Groovy. No Scala. No F#. Heck, no Java or C#. The last 15-20 years of language design, lessons learned and advancements made, have been thrown out and outlawed. If this idea catches on, that this is how you lock developers into your API, then the whole industry will get stuck. If this clause had been written fifteen years ago, the languages then would have been C, Fortran, and Cobol- and how would feel about being required to program in those languages today? Well, that’s how you’re going to fell about C++ and Objective C ten or fifteen years from now.
And don’t give me that shit about Apple being selective in enforcing this clause, so don’t worry they won’t enforce it on you. It doesn’t matter. You have to be insane to risks large amounts of capital (tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars of developer salaries to write the app, if nothing else) that Apple won’t choose to enforce this clause. No sane business manager would voluntarily add risk to an already risky proposition (most software projects fail) if they can at all avoid it.
” —Apple is just Microsoft with better marketing
