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Laurence Bowe
6,222 PointsCould apple shut down third party applications? (xamarin,phoneGap)
Hey, Just wanted some of your expertise cause I thought apple didn't approve of these companies! THANKS SO MUCH IN ADVANCE!!! :) (:
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Joseph Potts
11,187 PointsI doubt it. A lot of big companies use those frameworks to create apps for mobile, especially iOS because it's just quicker to get a working app out using those frameworks than in pure Objective-C (sacrificing many traits that pure Objective-C development has to offer).
The app store is filled with apps made with these frameworks, and since big companies use them as well, I doubt they would even want to consider trying to shut down these services since they are big contributors to the App Store itself.
kjvswift93
13,515 PointsI don't think that apple has any legal right to "shut-down" these programs, but they may continue to impose restrictions and guidelines so that the only feasible way to develop and distribute an app would be through Xcode.