nemesis <nam### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
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> Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> > nemesis <nam### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> > > "*Universal* application for iPhone & iPad"
> >
> > > good to see marketing guys with a sense of humor... ;)
> >
> >   Well, Apple calls iPhone/iPad apps (iow. the same executable can be run
> > natively in both the iPhone/iPod Touch and the iPad) "universal".

> Apple is truly full of manure.  Specially as the iPad is essentially an
> iPhone...

  When you compile a program, you have to set the target to iPhone or iPad.
A program compiled for the iPhone target will run on an iPad, but under a
more or less light "emulation" environment. A program compiled for the
iPad cannot, AFAIK, be run on the iPhone. (Well, I suppose it could be
theoretically run, if the iOS offered an environment to run iPad apps on
the iPhone and eg. scaled down the views. However, AFAIK it doesn't.)

  There's also a joint iPhone/iPad target you can choose, in which case the
app will run "natively" on both. (In practice for this to work the app has
to have separate nib files or other configuration data for the two platforms.)

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                                                          - Warp

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