Monday 10 March 2008

Universal Touch

The iPhone sdk is out. This will make it possible for a whole host of developers to make Touch apps. These are all compiled for the arm6 architecture. Of course in the future everything will be better. Let's hope that the transition to a newer better processor like the intel atom will be only a push of a button in XCode. Hopefully, the way I would like Apple to implement it is by generating Universal (fat) binaries like we have on the Mac. Because of the space constraints on the touch devices however, it is unwanted to have the same program for multiple processor architectures on the devise. Here iTunes will have to step in and strip it to the native app before sending it the device.

We can always dream,

Zaaf

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