and yet Dana wants us to believe that Apple is an Open source hating company.. time to get off the crack pipe man!
as for opening iOS to an abstraction layer.. Apple wants their platform to flourish.. they don't want someone to swoop in put an abstraction layer on top of iOS and take their platform hostage.. they want devs to have access to all the APIs and features that Apple provides.. not have devs limited by whatever features that Adobe, Appcelerator or whoever or whenever they decide to support said feature.. that's called smart. let the platform get on it's feet and flourish before opening it up. just look at flash as an example.. Jobs challenged Adobe almost 3 yrs ago to produce something better than Flash Lite for mobile.. something close, if not equivalent to desktop Flash.. so almost 3yrs later.. all Adobe managed is to push out is a buggie, crappy beta.. this is who they are going to leave their platform in the hands of.. these are the guys who are supposed to be up on all the new APIs and features and give devs access to through their Flash abstraction layer.. ARE YOU CRAZY!! why on earth would Apple allow Flash to ever have any chance of catching on, on their platform.. that would be completely mental.. when there just is no need.. almost any content by a provider that can't be accessed through a browser soon has an app for access.. only the very short sighted don't see why and what apple is doing.. get a clue Dana!
http://opensource.apple.com/
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