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Compared to the video game console industry, this is still pretty nice. Several of the companies require submission of the source code for review. And Nintendo
by larsberg 17y ago
Compared to the video game console industry, this is still pretty nice. Several of the companies require submission of the source code for review. And Nintendo in particular is renowned among my video game programming friends for having ridiculous, undocumented rules that change over time.
If you think of the iPhone as a PC-like platform, yes, it's worth being crazy. But I think of mine as more like a game console. That helps me minimize my own feather ruffling, even when Apple does snarky things to me during the review process.
- malkia 17y agoSimply you are mistaken, and that's not true (submitting the source code). First of all, lots of companies do license many 3rd party libraries, without their source code. Sometimes these said libraries are specifically compiled with latest bugfixes to the relevant project they've been used. What the companies might require is usually symbols/debug information/etc. But never the source code! After all, Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo are direct competitors. Why should an independent publisher (EA, Activision, THQ, Konami) be sharing source-code with them?
- larsberg 17y agoI am clearly misinformed and apologize for my mistake!