Re: [xmlvm-users] Xokoban has been accepted by Apple!

[Arno P. <ar...@pu...>]

I might as well share a funny story that I didn't mention in my previous 
message. If you dig deep enough in the XMLVM code repository, you will 
notice that Xokoban has slightly changed over the last few months. 
Originally, Xokoban's splash screen read "Written for Android and 
cross-compiled to the iPhone". The little guy you have to move through 
each game level of Xokoban used to be the official Android logo (Android 
pushing Apples, get it?). Three months into the reviewing of Xokoban, an 
Apple employee from the AppStore review team actually called me (yes, I 
talked to someone from Cupertino!). He basically told me "Thou shall not 
have Gods beside me" (well, he phrased it a little differently) and we 
removed all references to Android from Xokoban. The splash screen now 
reads "Smartphone cross-compilation framework; write once, run 
anywhere". Two months of more reviewing and Apple approved Xokoban.

Well, the story is funny, but it was always important to us that Apple 
knows what we do. There is no point in disguising what we do. But again, 
the good news is that Apple does not seem to object to XMLVM.

Arno


On 12/10/09 4:23 PM, Kevin Glass wrote:
> The security that the application being XMLVM based won't be one of the
> bizarre and random reasons Apple come up with to reject you mean :D
>
> 2009/12/10 Sascha Haeberling <sa...@xm... <mailto:sa...@xm...>>
>
>     Indeed, we're very excited about this. XMLVM developers should now
>     have the security of knowing that XMLVM apps will be accepted in the
>     AppStore.
>
>
>     On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Jochen Hiller
>     <jo....@go... <mailto:jo....@go...>> wrote:
>
>         Cool. This is an important step to accept XMLVM as technology
>         for cross platform development.
>
>         Congratulations, Jochen
>
>
>         On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Arno Puder <ar...@pu...
>         <mailto:ar...@pu...>> wrote:
>
>
>             Guys,
>
>             we have been waiting for this news for a long time. Waiting
>             for 5 months
>             in fact. Some of you may know that there is a little game
>             part of XMLVM:
>             Xokoban, an Android implementation of the old Sokoban game.
>             You can find
>             its source code in xmlvm/demo/android/xokoban. This
>             application is
>             developed in Java only making use of Android's API. Using
>             XMLVM we
>             cross-compiled Xokoban to the iPhone.
>
>             We have been quite provocative with this application. The
>             splash screen
>             of Xokoban explicitly mentions that this application is
>             cross-compiled
>             from a different smartphone platform. That was probably the
>             reason it
>             took Apple 5 months to review it.
>
>             As of today, Xokoban is in the AppStore! We have also
>             published Xokoban
>             on the Android Market. So, you iPhone and Android users,
>             look for
>             "Xokoban" on your respective app markets.
>
>             Xokoban is only a simple game; we are not game developers
>             but tool
>             developers. The important thing is that Apple is not
>             blocking XMLVM as a
>             technology. Considering Apple's behavior in the past this
>             should be good
>             news to everyone who considers using XMLVM.
>
>             We at XMLVM are quite happy about this news.
>
>             The XMLVM team.
>
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