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on Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 01:36:01PM +0800, Matthew Healey wrote:
Software developer ships ONE app bundle. When the user double clicks
on it, it auto-magically loads the correct binary for that system.
You won't have the problem of "which one to I download?".
So what will we get instead? "Why is Acrobat Reader 100MB to download?"
you mean it isn't already 100MB?..... ow no wait those were Wintel
machines I was downloading it on to ...
I guess that's why the old 0x0/PPC apps were called fat apps.
but then I think Acrobat reader long ago left it's core "lite and
easy" mantra at the door of the temple of bloatware.
It's a rare thing for me to right click on a pdf to open it in reader
when preview does 99% or more of what I need my PDF's to do. - I
don't even install it on staff macs here unless they are also using
the full Acrobat program so they can do a reasonable proof of it on a
vanilla PDF reader.
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