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When you auto generate code it is going to have a very distinct signature, not to mention common runtime code A couple thousand Russian worm authors would beg

• reitzensteinm 17y ago
  I'm talking specifically about Flash generated iPhone apps above, and there is no way Adobe would win that war. Even if they spend millions of dollars changing the generators in an arms race, it'll cost Apple orders of magnitude less to dissect their updates and write a program to flag the apps. Don't forget that Apple has full access to the Flash IDE - they can generate as many Flash iPhone apps as they want, and test out their signature analysis programs until they fit - where as Adobe has absolutely no knowledge of what Apple is doing to detect their generator. Apple has every advantage here. Adobe could put their best guys on it and Apple could defeat them with a single (smart) intern. As for the long tail of code generators, which I wasn't talking about, I just don't think Apple will bother. They know they can't win there, but they don't need to. As soon as one of them gains any sort of popularity (like Unity), they'll cut them down, but until then, a few apps breaking the rules means nothing to them in the big picture.