Wired reports that Apple has eased their restrictions on what tools and formats developers are allowed to use to create apps for the iOS app store. These rules were compleately secret before and governed weather an app was acceptable or not.
The changes seem to mean that developers can use Flash to develop their apps then to a file that 'Steve Job's likes' with a new tool called Adobe Packager. This helps everyone including users of the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite, like Wired Magazine and Martha Stewart Living Magazine who use Adobe for their magazines. This tool enables them to convert magazines to different viewing formats and enable new tools and possibilities for them to broadcast their content creatively.
Although this new tool from Adobe allows you to use flash to construct apps then convert them, it is unclear if their is restrictions of what you can and cant do. like can you have a really amazing looking interactive information app like the Ironaman 2 website.
(Ironman 2 website TM and © Marvel Entertainment 2010)
What i mean by this is how the navigation is a hologram of Tony Starks suit and the sites content is also projected onto an interactive blue hologram, wouldn't all this be cool in an app, just because it looks cool. However it is unclear if this can be achieved even with the new Adobe Packager.
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