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Yup. Allowing Flash-written apps is just encouraging even more shovelware to get into the App Store. You can argue about the benefits of having an open market, but that is categorically not what the App Store is. If you want an open market, you can write for Android.

If you write a Cocoa Touch app, you're targeting the touchscreen-based iPhone OS.

If you build with Flash, you're targeting mouse-based windowed operating systems, and, what the hell, might as well build to iPhone while you're at it!

Banning Flash apps is smart, and I'm glad they're doing it. For C# apps, that's definitely non-ideal, but I can see where they're coming from.



Isn't the App Store already the definition of shovelware? There are some great apps but the vast majority are awful.




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