On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Karsten Silz <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Dec 13, 7:13 pm, Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Apple encourages you to think of the iPad as a different device, not
> > > just a blown-up iPhone, and decided to implement it with different UI
> > > controls.
> >
> > The same could be said of Java ME: "Java ME encourages you to think of
> all
> > phones as a different device for which you should write specific code".
>
> In the grand scheme of things, Java ME just ran on phones.  For me,
> the iPad is not just a big phone, both in usage and UI, so citing the
> iPad as an example of more fragmentation is like saying that
> Silverlight is fragmented because you have to write applications
> differently for Windows Phone 7 and a Windows PC.
>

That's a good example of playing on the meaning of words.

The bottom line remains that you need to write two different versions of
your code for the iPhone and the iPad.

-- 
Cédric

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