Apple To Release Mountain Lion On July 25

Re:Apple To Release Mountain Lion On July 25 by taligent on Tuesday July 24, 2012 @06:58PM (#4288495)

1) There IS a technical reason. The iPad 1 has a larger screen and as such requires more RAM than the iPod 4G. Also as for the iPod 3G "almost" identical makes a difference.

2) Apple releases a lot less products than the Android OEMs. So not sure compared to whom Apple is wasteful.

3) Personally I fail to see how autolayout is a particular attractive feature. And I haven't found it that hard to mix match SDKs/targets on iOS.

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Re:Apple To Release Mountain Lion On July 25 by pmjordan on Saturday July 28, 2012 @05:29PM (#4306572)

Re 1: The iPad has 786432 pixels vs the iPod 4G's 614400. Not that big a difference, particularly as that mainly affects the framebuffer. If each pixel in the back, front and Z buffers uses 32 bits, that's a whopping 2MB RAM difference, or less than 1% of the total. So, no technical reason, end of story.

Re 2: The android makers don't seem to brag about being environmentally friendly. Apple can be held to higher standards as they're making that a supposed selling point.

Re 3: I guess it depends on the apps you're making. For autorotation and dynamically-sized content in particular it's extremely useful and saves quite a bit of manual work.

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