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Originally Posted by jbjb
The discussion seems to have morphed towards that, but let's not forget that it started out with your claim that iOS currently doesn't support, and never has supported, scalability in any way, and that this was currently restricting Apple's ability to produce new hardware
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This is inaccurate. I never said "never has supported" or "in any way."
Here is what I did say, an exact quote:
"I do understand how compatibility with existing apps is always a concern. Apple's iOS can't scale to different screen sizes the way Android can. So every new screen size requires their developers to jump through hoops. That is a limitation of iOS which holds them back on the hardware front. But that is their fault."
And, ironically, that was in reply to leebase who is on the opposite side of the aisle from me, but in agreement with me on this point:
"Two priorities keep Apple at its current size. One handed operation and compatibility with the million apps in the App Store. I suspect the firs priority was the genesis of their choice and the second one keeps them there. If they come up with a great solution to the second we may see them some time in the future."
The fact that this was true only up to iOS6 is besides the point. For the majority of the history of iOS, it was true.
You still have not supported your claim that there was a
practical way to scale apps prior to iOS6. Or that anyone ever did it, apart from a clunky attempt for a very esoteric app. Until you do, I stand by my claim that that the majority of my statement was correct.
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We've shown that claim to be false, and your claim has moved from "cannot do it, and could never do it" to "can do it, and always could, though at some point in the past it was more limited."
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Please, don't purport to quote me without actually doing so. Don't put quotation marks around words that I never used.
I never said those things, and your use of quotation marks there is extremely poor.
--Pat