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were already ramping on SIO2 and straight C, C++ engine…but in all honesty Id rather stick with Unity.

Anyone? anyone? (echo, echo.. echo… )

Thanks Unity for fighting the hard fight and looking after us. May the creatives win! Our audiences care not for the tech, but the game itself.

Also its interesting to note that in the last several months already 2 Android based phones beat the 74 days to reach a million sales that iphone established. And lets face it the iphone sales are double dip figures(tainted with I have a new iphone voucher but not a real phone) , buy an iphone(missing real world functionality) then buy the upgraded iphone (3g) then buy the next upgrade etc..same double dip standard is being applied to ipad.

Jobs screwed developers and software houses in the 80′s and a lot of them got burned, in turn that hurt Apple(lack of choice in software). Can you explain why Apple desktops never breached niche markets ?.

in 2007 there were no ‘iphone’ developers, existing developers came on board and gave Apple a much needed success, these same developers have the power to reverse that.

This is my gut feeling based on what I have seen in the past and current events. I am sure we will all find out shortly. A different company I know which I am not at liberty to discuss just went through this same hand wringing issue and it just came out on the positive side. Stay calm and keep developing your title..

All will be resolved shortly I am sure.

Best, Dell

Erm, if you’re worried about that then you need to focus on your game ideas and design… seriously.

In any industry, added competition = raising the bar on quality. It’s a good thing.

I have worked in the software industry for longer than a few years and also developing Apple SW. I pride myself in reading between the lines of what is actually going to happen. In fact I have had more than a few public speaking gigs to explain how future game changing tech might affect the future business of developers, consumers and manufacturers.

If you hold off buying Unity 3.0 or pause your development plans because you are worried that Apple is going to toast Unity for the iPad and/or iPhone you will regret later stopping at this point.

I am 100% certain that Unity will be approved as it stands and in the rare event it does not I am sure the Unity dev team will provide a solution.

So buy 3.0 and Unity iPhone 1.7 and keep on developing for iPad and iPhone. Don’t let the “worried” dev posts on this forum deter you from your iPad/iPhone dev plans. Don’t waste your time being an Apple hater, just get on with your dev project. Apple’s app store is still the best way to reach the user base of customers who will buy your game. If the game is worthy, you will succeed.

In the past you made games and prayed you could get it into consumers hands and multiple confusing/expensive distribution channels. Now you have the easiest access to the end users in the history of SW development.

Be a professional and don’t panic because of a few people who proclaim “The Sky is Falling” online. Focus on your project, make it the best you can and keep pushing forward.

Refer back to this post at a future date and you will see my advice to you was excellent….

Best, Dell

I’ve never been told by Sony and team that we can only use x engine or x technology to develop their games. So long as we meet their TRCs they’re happy. We can use whatever damn engine we want and each game is judged on a case by case basis. This is what Apple should be doing.

Sean, how does Flash “compiler entirely bypasses Apple’s SDK, which makes it far too easy for such applications to be built…” out of interest? It was my understanding too that it does use Xcode to build, too.