Apple loosens its chokehold on app development - Sep. 9, 2010 - 1 views
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Apple is loosening its grip on its app development for its mobile devices, announcing Thursday that it will drop restrictions on what programming tools developers can use to create iOS apps.
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The unexpected move means Apple is standing down in what had become an increasingly heated battle between the company and the developers who have created the more than 250,000 apps that stock Apple's App Store.
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Adobe's current Flash development suite includes a tool for converting apps to run on Apple's platform, but the company said in April that it would stop further development on that tool because of Apple's restrictions and focus more on Google's Android operating system.