Apple’s iPhone lockdown – Adobe in a world of Hurt

With the release of the iPhone OS 4 beta SDK Apple have added this snippet to the developer’s agreement:

Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs. Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine, and only code written in C, C++, and Objective-C may compile and directly link against the Documented APIs (e.g., Applications that link to Documented APIs through an intermediary translation or compatibility layer or tool are prohibited).

What does this mean to Adobe…
Well I read this as there CS5 release which exports to iPhone will not be allowed in the store because its not written in one of the above languages

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