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Right that's the whole point of my post. I'm saying its technically possible to separate them - Apple should then do the presentation work of showing them as th
by tolmasky 15y ago
Right that's the whole point of my post. I'm saying its technically possible to separate them - Apple should then do the presentation work of showing them as the same on the store and pretending they're one app.
- olalonde 15y agoI never owned an iDevice so I'm not sure the analogy stands but I believe the Ubuntu Software Center does something similar to what you're describing. You get the same 'app store' whatever version of Ubuntu you are running but when you install an 'app' it silently downloads the package targeted at your Ubuntu version.
- keeperofdakeys 15y agoGoogle Play supports this, which is mainly used for tablet vs phone, but could be used for different ARM architectures.. http://developer.android.com/guide/market/publishing/multiple-apks.html http://developer.android.com/guide/market/publishing/multipl...
- vidarh 15y agoThere's an increasing number of MIPS based Android devices out these days, so hopefully they can handle that too...
- olalonde 15y agoI thought all Android apps ran in a Dalvik VM. What do you mean by "could be used for different ARM architectures"? Isn't Java bytecode independent of the underlying architecture?
- tryke 15y agoThe Android Native Development Kit allows you to write normal C code and compile it for ARM devices.
- fpgeek 15y agoGood point, though I'd say different architectures rather than different ARM architectures, now that we have Android/x86 in the wild, too.
- illumen 15y agoYeah, but Ubuntu is professional, well designed, and well made - by people who truly care about their users. You can't hold Apple up to the same high standards... they're just not in the same league.