3 ms·

This argument is flawed. Given that there are already bad apps in the app store doesn't mean restricting the language of use to C based languages is a bad way o

by csmeder 17y ago

This argument is flawed. Given that there are already bad apps in the app store doesn't mean restricting the language of use to C based languages is a bad way of minimizing the number of future bad apps. I am not saying I have proved the oposite: "That restricting the language will improve the quality of the new stream of apps submitted." I am simply saying the above argument is flawed. I believe the author of the this article is correct. If you allow people to use flash, .net and other methods the quality of apps submitted will be largely lower in quality. How do I feel about this strategy? Thats a different story. If I was Steve Jobs, I don't know if I would do it, I am still undecided. On one hand I feel this lights a fire underneath developers to compete with the iPhone using Android. Competition is good for everyone in the long run. On the other hand I want to be able to use Lisp on the iPhone and I want apple to encourage "think different"...

wvenable 17y ago
> If you allow people to use flash, .net and other methods the quality of apps submitted will be largely lower in quality. There was a statistic posted early that 10 of top 100 applications in the store were written in .NET (MonoTouch). If that's true, a significant number of users are extremely satisfied with these products. The fact is, your assuming that apps written in Flash or .NET are automatically lower in quality -- that it's a given from the start. You haven't proved that assumption. (Now, I'll accept that for Flash it's probably would have been true -- but we were never even given the chance to know for sure).
elblanco 17y ago
You would have to demonstrate that C* apps are qualitatively better than non-C apps (or apps that use some other language for runtime scripting like Lua). I don't think that has been done yet.

by csmeder 17y ago

wvenable 17y ago

> If you allow people to use flash, .net and other methods the quality of apps submitted will be largely lower in quality. There was a statistic posted early that 10 of top 100 applications in the store were written in .NET (MonoTouch). If that's true, a significant number of users are extremely satisfied with these products. The fact is, your assuming that apps written in Flash or .NET are automatically lower in quality -- that it's a given from the start. You haven't proved that assumption. (Now, I'll accept that for Flash it's probably would have been true -- but we were never even given the chance to know for sure).

elblanco 17y ago

You would have to demonstrate that C* apps are qualitatively better than non-C apps (or apps that use some other language for runtime scripting like Lua). I don't think that has been done yet.