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Re:The price of a messy codebase: No LaTeX on the iPad by iqster on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @08:10AM (#3265362)
I never understood the exception for game engines (ala Lua). Why are those okay but other VMs not okay (from Apple's perspective, of course)?
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Re:The price of a messy codebase: No LaTeX on the iPad by bzbarsky on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @09:10AM (#3265535)
Apple wants to restrict the platform options available to preserve their user lock-in. They were sort of forced to make an exception for games because they had no alternative to offer.
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Re:The price of a messy codebase: No LaTeX on the iPad by albertzeyer on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @08:37AM (#3265432)
They don't want to have other platforms inside their platform because they think it would result in a bad user experience.
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