*cough* Google's App Inventer was never able to really build true applications anyway (the apps can't be submitted to the Android Marketplace and distributed in any way). Plus, there are better alternatives (available right now) for teaching development and easy app creation for Android, iOS, web and plenty more... Illumination Software Creator - http://radicalbreeze.com/

True, developing for iOS still requires a financial investment. That said... Illumination Software Creator -does- allow someone to build an Android app. Then, when they feel like it'll be financially rewarding to them, hit a button and have a full XCode project auto-magically generated and ready to build. Same goes for Python/GTK apps and Flash web apps. (And, soon, HTML5, WP7 and WebOS).

There's always Illumination Software Creator. Fully visual app development. And it supports not just Android... but iOS, Flash and more. http://radicalbreeze.com/

Or... you could do something similar with Illumination and generate Flash, iPhone, iPad, Android and Python applications. http://www.radicalbreeze.com/

This is one of many reasons why tools like Illumination Software Creator are so important. If you have a high level language (in that case a fully visual one) that generates native code for any given platform (Java + Android API for Android apps, etc.) then whenever a company decides to sue someone for using an API/Language/etc it becomes easy to jump to another platform (or another api/language on the same platform) from the same project files.

We set the $3 minimum price thinking that "3 bucks is so cheap... it's practically free"... and if we made it any cheaper we actually wouldn't be getting -any- of that money after processing fees.

Finger slipped and hit the submit button before the description was added. Doesn't look like I can edit the post either. Bummer! Well... here's the text I would have put in. :) ==== Illumination Software Creator 2.0 was announced today (and set to ship later this month) adding full support for building Adobe Flex and AIR applications (in addition to the current Python/GTK build options) from the same project files. Illumination projects are building using building blocks in a flow-chart-like way. Also announced is a native Mac version of Illumination (already available for Linux and Windows).

Yay for a pre-decided stance on a topic and blindly attacking one side!

My mistake. I got that information from an article on CNN that seems to have been incorrect and updated as more information has come out. It appears they were not heavily armed, merely knives and pipes, etc.

And there are videos appearing already that show individuals on board going nuts and attacking the soldiers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LulDJh4fWI

The question was, on its face, ridiculous.

It's the military. Even if there were adequate video surveillance (which there isn't always) the military and government would need to approve it prior to release. And, even if both the military and government 100% agrees that it should be released, that process will not be instantaneous. Meetings will be had. Internal reviews will take place (to ensure not proprietary information that should not be released to the public, such as technologies, strategies, armaments, etc is accidentally released via the video).

Also to tow a ship that does not want to be towed is incredibly difficult. Especially when they are shooting at you and you attempt to tie a rope to their ship.

Your comment smacks of someone who wants, very much, to blame a specific party regardless of facts.

This ships tried to run through a blockade. Even if they were purely humanitarian ships... they were very, very stupid humanitarian ships that were heavily armed.