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In September 2015 I decided to [[AppStoreUpdate|update]] the [[MineSweeper]] on [[AppStore]] to version 3.0. With a great pleasure [[I]] could announce on December 18, 2015 the version was alive! With a great despair [[I]] have to announce [[AppStoreTheEnd|it is gone]]. Why?

Well, [[I]] am just a researcher. My whole work on the  [[Html4Java]] [[API]]s that later become known as [[DukeScript]] was motivated by overcoming challenges:
* make sure [[Java]] can run everywhere
* make sure [[Java]] is more effective than [[JavaScript]]
* ensure such applications can be deployed everywhere
* return [[Java]] [[Bck2Brwsr]]

I believe all of my goals were successfully met. The [[API]]s [[I]] designed can be executed everywhere including such ([[Java]]) hostile environments like modern browsers. The code one has to write with [[Html4Java]] [[API]]s is on par and sometimes even shorter than its [[JavaScript]] version. The fact that my [[MineSweeper]] can be executed on [[Android]], [[iOS]], desktop and [http://xelfi.cz/minesweeper/bck2brwsr in a browser] is a proof that it can run everywhere.

However [[Apple]] wants me to pay $99 to proof that. I paid once when [[AppStore|uploading the application]] for the first time. I paid again the next year to [[AppStoreUpdate|update it]], but they want such payment every year! For what!? For me to demonstrate that developers can use [[Html4Java]] everywhere? I have no benefits from that so far, and I decided to not pay the remedies to [[Apple]] this year. The result? The [[MineSweeper]] application is no longer available from [[AppStore]].

[[I]] am sad. [[Apple]] has no cost distributing my application. Still [[Apple]] wants me to do a yearly payment. [[I]] am giving up. If somebody wants to distribute my [[MineSweeper]], please go on, but [[I]] am giving up - giving up on [[Apple]]. In May 2016 the [[ControlsJS]] guys picked my [[MineSweeper]] up, rewrote it to use [[ControlsJS]] technology and started to distribute it on [[AppStore]] again: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/controls.js-fair-minesweeper/id1110702611

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