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Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] san rr com> wrote:
>>> Nothing stops anyone from making a word processor or spread sheet for the
>>> iPad either. In fact, Apple is encouraging people to do so.
>
>> Yeah, great, until you want to print your document out. :-)
>
> Actually since iPhone programs can make http requests, one could devise
> a system where you send the document to your PC via http, and have the PC
> print it out... Contrived, but entirely possible.
Sure. Which, again, means you need a PC as an adjunct. You could write a
word processor. You can't print it out. You can only send it to someone else
to print it. You wouldn't need http - just email it to the mail account on
your laptop.
And it's certainly not the kind of thing that someone who doesn't even want
a Mac is going to code, is my point.
> (Yes, it is entirely possible. Eg. games use this to send high scores
> to online servers.)
Yeah, that's exactly the sort of thing XNA disallows. I don't think
Microsoft wants an XBoxBotNet.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Ada - the programming language trying to avoid
you literally shooting yourself in the foot.
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