[squeak-dev] Re: Talking to Steve Jobs about Scratch.

Edgar J. De Cleene edgardec2005 at gmail.com
Fri Jun 11 11:03:50 UTC 2010




On 6/11/10 2:43 AM, "John M McIntosh" <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com>
wrote:

> Well I was hoping to have a few more days to settle things.
> 
> The Smalltalk community should take a deep bow and thank Alan Kay for spending
> many hours talking to the highest level of people at Apple about the
> importance of the iPad as a platform to teach computational theory to people
> of all ages. 
> 
> So how does this all sort out? Well I don't know, nothing has officially
> changed, yet...
> 
> But I'm at WWDC this week, I did talk to the manager of the App Store (they
> were expecting me) and I do have an appointment with Apple next week to
> discuss the "Unless otherwise approved by Apple in writing"
> 
> Once that happens I will let everyone know the outcome, Apple is working what
> the approval process is, and I think the Smalltalk & Scratch community will be
> the first players in the door for Apple's embracing of interpreted languages
> for educational purposes on the iPad.
> 
> I must publicly thank the Smalltalk and Scratch communities for being patient
> and polite in waiting for the issue to resolve itself, and true thanks should
> be directed to Alan for his behind the scenes efforts in ensuring the Computer
> Science community has equal footing with the language arts & music departments
> for apps on the iPad.
> 
> I caution everyone that we're not there yet, but let's see what happens next
> week, so don't open the champaign bottles yet.

Alan and you John deserves our deep gratitude .
I cross my fingers waiting a iPad VM and Squeak going into it.
Very , very thanks.

Edgar





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