Steve Jobs Says, "The only tool you can use to write iPhone apps is ours!"

Will we see Flash-to-iPhone Compiler in CS5?

I was checking out my favorite site when I stumble upon an interesting article "New iPhone Developer Agreement Bans the Use of Adobe’s Flash-to-iPhone Compiler". Well, I am not sure if I should consider it an article or a blog, but to some a blog is an article. Okay, I'll call it a post.

Well, this post had some very interesting information about apple's new iPhone Developer Program License Agreement. Prior to today’s release the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement read, in its entirety:

3.3.1 — Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs.

The new iPhone Developer Program License Agreement released by Apple, section 3.3.1 now reads:

3.3.1 — Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs. Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine, and only code written in C, C++, and Objective-C may compile and directly link against the Documented APIs (e.g., Applications that link to Documented APIs through an intermediary translation or compatibility layer or tool are prohibited).

In one sentence I am going to explain what is going on. Apple is sending a message to Adobe, "The only tool you can use to write iPhone apps is ours!" It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

John Gruber has more here...