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Five rational arguments against Apple's 3.3.1 policy David Apr 12 157 comments Latest by Brent Many developers are up in arms about a new policy from Apple that mandates all iOS applications to be written in either a flavor of C or JavaScript. It’s original motivation is apparently to prevent Adobe’s imminent Flash-to-iOS compiler in CS5 from working, but the collateral damage is much greater than that. There’s a wealth of cross-compilers in the wild that looks to be outlawed by the same provision. Titanium , Gambit Scheme , MonoTouch , and Unity3D are a few of the bigger ones. These layers allow you to write applications in programming languages like Scheme or C# and compile that into a native iOS applications (as well as other platforms like Android). Lots of developers, me included, have had such a gut-turning reaction to Apple’s new policy that we have a hard time thinking and speaking rationally. The emotions take over ...

So, Last FM and LaLa.... These two I don't know, Last Fm just didn't do it for me...so much re-dux of the same old thing and this one kicks you right into a video player...so as far as getting work done, wasn't happening. Although nice layout on the history of the artist and for me personally there's something about red that I find to distracting to leave on at work. Which reminds me one last criticism of Jango..the player plays only one song if the window is not open on top in your browser big boo for multi-tasking.   And LaLa....please. I know this one get lots of props from the folks at work and Jobs just bought it but c'mon ...way too complicated. I don't know I even tried but you open an account and get some kind of free points that expire, I have no idea what you're supposed to do with them though because I tried to make a play list and somehow accidently burned a few points just putting the list together and not even playing the songs. As if th...