Re:Good Apple (Bad Apple Remix) on the Soviet BK-0010/11M
by pjc50 on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @06:57AM
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> What am I gaining?
"easier, more portable, more future-proof, more extensible, and quicker to develop"? I mean, people aren't doing it this way simply out of incompetence or for the hell of it.
It's also something of a local minimum in the platform wars. We can't have truly cross-platform everything because the platform vendors wouldn't be able to take their cut. The only reason the web survives as a cross-platform platform is it's where they've fought each other to a standstill.
"easier, more portable, more future-proof, more extensible, and quicker to develop"? I mean, people aren't doing it this way simply out of incompetence or for the hell of it.
It's also something of a local minimum in the platform wars. We can't have truly cross-platform everything because the platform vendors wouldn't be able to take their cut. The only reason the web survives as a cross-platform platform is it's where they've fought each other to a standstill.