Re:Whatever’s Best For The People, That’s What We Do
by kayoone on Friday March 28, 2014 @02:44AM
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Because maintaining N different user interfaces is hard.
No matter if the underlying approach or data is the same, the user interface is different and from that point on you have to take them all into account when you make a change.
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Re:Whatever’s Best For The People, That’s What We Do
by KhalPanda on Friday March 28, 2014 @05:41AM
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They're already doing it with their numerous Facebook apps for different platforms.
Re:Whatever’s Best For The People, That’s What We Do
by biesnecker on Friday March 28, 2014 @06:04AM
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And it's hard.
Re:Whatever’s Best For The People, That’s What We Do
by KhalPanda on Friday March 28, 2014 @06:25AM
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And they're still doing a perfectly good job of it.
Re:Whatever’s Best For The People, That’s What We Do
by untog on Friday March 28, 2014 @06:45AM
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Presumably at a large expense.
Re:Whatever’s Best For The People, That’s What We Do
by biesnecker on Friday March 28, 2014 @09:15AM
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Ridiculously large expense. And not always all that well -- it's just that most people don't use most of the platform simultaneously on different devices / stacks / versions, so they don't notice.