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It appears their strategy is now "embrace everything".

• tacone 11y ago
  and extend anything! and... (gosh)
  • bpye 11y ago
    Not an iOS developer, but, say they did extend this, what's to stop a developer taking the (presumably MIT licensed code), using it within his app to get that on iOS too? I guess this doesn't work if it's being backed by some Windows feature, but otherwise?
    • 0x0 11y ago
      That doesn't make much sense because iOS already comes with implementations for all these frameworks. You're kinda asking "what's to stop a developer from including wine into his windows app so it can run on windows?"
      • bpye 11y ago
        Yes totally pointless so long as they were strictly replicating iOS, but people seem to fear Microsoft extending the APIs.
        • fleitz 11y ago
          iOS developers already deal with this every year apple extends the Apis and there are various techniques to using the extended Apis and falling back to the old ones
        • 0x0 11y ago
          Ah, now I get your point. Yeah, unfortunately you can be pretty sure that any interesting "extended API" would be a small wrapper around a windows-specific OS-provided service and thus unportable. That was the big issue with the MS Java extensions too I believe.
      • megablast 11y ago
        No, he is saying extended the iOS API - say to read from a heat sensor. Then it will only work on the windows/ios hybrid, not on the true iOS app.