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Re:The price of a messy codebase: No LaTeX on the iPad by msbarnett on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @04:07PM (#3267367)
In-app purchases can be used to trigger your application to download new data, but not new executable code.
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Re:The price of a messy codebase: No LaTeX on the iPad by angus77 on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @06:02PM (#3267846)
The packages are text files, not executables.
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Re:The price of a messy codebase: No LaTeX on the iPad by joelhaasnoot on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @02:37AM (#3269181)
Exactly, so all you could do is trigger certain bundles to be 'unlocked': you would always have to ship them.
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