Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> 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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