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Re:Why Does Windows Have Terrible Battery Life? by threeseed on Monday October 21, 2013 @08:23AM (#6584980)
Mac apps can't run on iOS because of the architecture difference.

It's the same reason Windows apps can't run on Surface RT.

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Re:Why Does Windows Have Terrible Battery Life? by nwh on Monday October 21, 2013 @08:39AM (#6585050)
They could. Apple run PowerPC apps on Intel processors. The real answer is that they don't want them to.
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Re:Why Does Windows Have Terrible Battery Life? by jzzskijj on Monday October 21, 2013 @08:48AM (#6585083)
Apple ran PowerPC apps on Intel processors. The real answer is that they don't want them to.

Rosetta is neither included nor supported in Mac OS X v10.7 "Lion" or later. Therefore, with Lion and later releases, the current Macintosh platform does not support PowerPC applications.

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Re:Why Does Windows Have Terrible Battery Life? by nwh on Monday October 21, 2013 @10:42AM (#6585865)
They don't need to. The transition is complete, any many apps had Universal binaries that ran seamlessly on both platforms.
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