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iqster on Nov 22, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: The price of a messy codebase: No LaTeX on the iPa...

I never understood the exception for game engines (ala Lua). Why are those okay but other VMs not okay (from Apple's perspective, of course)?

bzbarsky on Nov 22, 2011 | [–]

Apple wants to restrict the platform options available to preserve their user lock-in. They were sort of forced to make an exception for games because they had no alternative to offer.

albertzeyer on Nov 22, 2011 | | [–]

They don't want to have other platforms inside their platform because they think it would result in a bad user experience.

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