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The Genius In Apple's Vertical Platform

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the a-tad-optimistic dept.

Precision found a nice little piece of speculation on the real reason behind Apple's recent efforts to restrict app development to XCode. While the standard given reason is to kill competition from Flash and other stacks, this story speculates that the real reason has to do with the unusually large die size of the A4 processor inside the iPads. Worth a quick read.

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  1. Re:Doesn't account for all the wording by Altus · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Maybe they made the A4 with the knowledge that they were going to enable more multitasking in the next release of the OS (which they are). Sometimes companies actually plan ahead on these kinds of things.

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  2. Re:Interesting, but... by Angst+Badger · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It is a well written, well reasoned article.

    As breathless cheerleading goes, I suppose.

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