[Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] Work on Video Games in Haskell

[Peter Verswyvelen]

It's interesting to see what will happen to Unity3D. This great casual
game development tool offers support for exporting to iPhone. They are
hit by Apple's new developer license - because they generate code -
but apparently, apps generated by Unity3D do end up in the Apple
store...

Now.. Unity 3D is also planning to support Android in the future. I
wouldn't be surprised that as soon as you can export games for both
iPhone and Android with a simple click, that Apple would prohibit
Unity3D generated games, as they have the power with their license
agreement, who knows.

See e.g. http://blogs.unity3d.com/2010/04/10/unity-and-the-iphone-os-4-0/

The strange thing is: Apple supports HTML5. But with HTML5 one would
be able to write (and publish and sell) all kinds of Flash-like games
directly on the internet, without Apple having any kind of control
over what content gets on the iPhone... So I really don't get it...

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 3:23 AM, John Meacham <john at repetae.net> wrote:
> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 08:41:02PM -0400, Pierre-Etienne Meunier wrote:
>> > If this ever gets to court, we may have a criterion imposed on us,
>> > possibly one as silly as the distinction between programs and
>> > algorithms said to be made in patent-land.
>>
>> I really do agree with your post, but what I dont get is why Apple does not intent anything against George Hotz, who publicly acknowledged having disassembled his iphone for performing FPGA black magic on it, and would sue someone for refusing objects and mallocs in programming.
>>
>> This makes me wonder if they really have the legal means of doing anything.
>
> Sure, they have the legal means to simply deny your program access to
> the App store. They don't need to sue you, you did nothing wrong by
> writing a haskell->c compiler and writing a game in it. They just won't
> distribute it. They are already under no obligation to distribute your
> work or make it available.
>
>        John
>
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