How Apple Cheats

Re:How Apple Cheats by ctdonath on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @12:46PM (#7811297)

And yet, there is something Apple knows about it, which you don't, that leads Apple to prevent general use thereof. They are in a position to abruptly change how it's used in their own software, but are not in a position to make you abruptly change how you use it; not letting you use it is fair in this situation.

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Re:How Apple Cheats by jamra on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @03:05PM (#7812144)

Since there is one init function, any changes to the SDK will cascade outwards automatically.

I think that you are trying to make some sort of theoretical point about theoretical issues with the SDK. Do you program on iOS devices?

There is a reason why they do not want users to use this on an iPhone. It is the same reason why they do not want users to use a numeric-only keyboard on the iPad. It is because it does not look nice. Launching a popover from the bottom half of an iPhone doesn't look quite right. That is all. There are no API problems. A popover is just a view that appears in dynamic locations on the device. When programming something like that in objective-c, you use CGRect to provide an x, y, width, and height. I don't know why people keep trying to argue these theoretical points without understanding the simplicity of the control.

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