Scratch – educational programming app, removed from iTunes store

Scratch – the educational programming app was removed from iTunes store – Here’s a post from the Scratch forums –

…Apple has banned all third party software from creating ipod apps. What they did to scratch was nothing compared to what they did to Adobe. Flash CS5’s biggest feature was the ability to make flash programs for the iphone and because Apple has banned this the usefulness of flash CS5 has gone down a lot. Its a business decision. Apple wants to be in complete control of what can make apps for their machines so they ban all app creators except their own…

While the Adobe vs Apple – Flash feud is interesting and sometimes comical to watch, Scratch and the children/parents/educators are now collateral damage.

You can read a bit more about Scratch here.

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Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art — and share your creations on the web. As young people create and share Scratch projects, they learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively. Scratch is developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab, with financial support from the National Science Foundation, Microsoft, Intel Foundation, Nokia, Iomega and MIT Media Lab research consortia.