Apple bans iPhone drones

Jeffrey Johnson September 9, 2010 at 5:56pm

I personally have no interest in doing any UAV dev on iPhone or any other iOS platform. I just found this interesting. It also should be pointed out that this restriction would prevent you from distributing an app through the app store, but NOT from developing one or even distributing it via the Ad-Hoc method which is usually used for Beta distribution. I imagine noone actual does care to develop for iOS, but it is interesting that apple does specifically ban it.

I am (slowly) working on porting some of our old work on PictEarth to the android platform. Stay tuned.

Gerry Lichter September 9, 2010 at 5:08pm

Might have to do with legal restrictions on exports?

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Gary Mortimer September 9, 2010 at 4:24pm

Indeed indeed

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Gary Mortimer September 9, 2010 at 3:49pm

Blimey Chris Mc N, BTW is your family one bigger yet??

Ron Jacobs September 9, 2010 at 3:31pm

Does this ban the use of such an app or just inclusion on their APP site? I know nothing about iphone apps.

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Gary Mortimer September 9, 2010 at 3:19pm

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/09/app-store-rules/

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Gary Mortimer September 9, 2010 at 3:15pm

Would it make the iPhone an ITAR issue if the location based stuff was used??