Assumed to be collateral damage in the battle between Apple and Adobe, David Helgason, the CEO of Danish middleware company Unity Technologies, has responded to Apple's U-turn over development tools.

"We never felt it right to shout out complaints, even if many of our friends and customers asked us to," Helgason explains, of the past five months.

Secret discussions

"Now we couldn't discuss publicly during the last months that Apple stayed in touch with us all along, and that we had conversations with them every few weeks," he also reveals.

"And after what we must assume has been deep deliberation and soul-seeking inside Apple, they finally came out with a response early this morning California time: they've simply decided to stop worrying about how applications are made."

Of course, he thinks this is an excellent decision for developers, commenting that, "it's possible to make incredibly bad applications using just Xcode, and it's possible to make just as amazingly excellent applications with a tool like Unity".

You can read the full statement here.