I was excited to hear in Adobe’s CS5 launch yesterday that Flash CS5 supports iPhone app export but later in the day I heard Apple’s newly revised section 3.3.1 of their licensing terms makes it so Flash made apps likely won’t be allowed! This is not the only thing the new terms limits.
From the Apple licensing terms: “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).”