Apple’s unyielding and highly vocal opposition to Adobe Flash moderated Thursday morning when all of a sudden it opened up its vaunted App Store to iPad and iPhone programs written using other people’s widgetry. Although it wrapped the surprise announcement up in “we’re listening to developers” ribbons, its real reason for changing parts of its iOS Developer Program license is more likely the reportedly parallel investigations of its business practices in the mobile software market by the Federal Trade Commission and the European Commission.

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