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Mobile cross platform died with Apple and the iPhone – so what?

In an blog entry “Mobile cross platform died with Apple and the iPhone”
Valtech Denmark’s Martin Eiler complains about Apple’s recent move to basically ban cross-platform development tools, the most obvious Adobe’s CS5 Flash cross-development feature, based on the argument that cross-platform development (and thus a common market) will benefit ” developers, clients, technology and world peace”.

I have to say that I do not agree.

Unbestätigte Preise für das iPhone in Deutschland

Fscklog berichtet über unbestätigte Preise  für die iPhones in Deutschland.
iPhone 3GS / 16 GB +

Complete M Tarif: 40 EUR
Complete S Tarif: 100 EUR

(Complete M ist Netzintern & Festnetz: Flat, andere Netze: 0,29EUR/Min, Daten: Flat, keine Info über Tethering, 59EUR/Monat)
Der Tarif ist konkurrenzfähig wenn er mit Tethering kommt.
Sollte das stimmen so erwarte ich eine deutliche [...]

Risk (of getting filthy rich)

Buy Apple put options
Hack MobileMe
Perform 40 million “remote wipes”
Cash in & ruuuun

Optional: Buy a small country of your choice.
Seriously:  The  MobileMe iPhone integration has risen the stakes considerably. I just hope that remote wipe is protected by a user-defined password on the device (and not just by the MobileMe account). They can’t be that stupid [...]