S.Taylor wrote:Wael, don't you think that the choice is between iphone 4s and iphone 5s, rather than between iphone 4s and iphone 5?
Isn't the first year of a new number, for people who want the newest gadgets, and the second year, with s at the end, for people who prefer stability, and maybe a longer lasting product, too?
Indeed Shimon,I do....
One rather wait when a new generation of a certain product is released until all the bugs are sorted out....this goes almost for everything in life,not only for the smart telephones....women make exception though
Dr.D
_No one can hit as hard as life.But it ain’t about how hard you can hit.It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.How much you can take and keep moving forward….
M ANSARI wrote:Yes, and I find it extraordinary that some developers will require you to buy the same program you bought for the Iphone to use on the Ipad ... just to get the native resolution of the Ipad. Surely that must be trivial to do!
It's not necessarily just a different resolution; sometimes the iPad version also has more features (as will probably happen in one of the next couple of versions of Stockfish). But you're still right, supporting both devices with a single executable is trivial, and indeed easier for the programmer than writing two slightly different programs. I'm pretty sure most programmers who sell separate iPhone/iPad versions of their programs compile both binaries from the same source code. Selling them as two different programs is purely a business decision -- the programmers think they can make more money that way. For a free program like Stockfish, it obviously doesn't make sense.
Imagine that if you bought a PC program, you would have to buy a new one every time you changed your monitor size !!!
In a way, there is something vaguely analogous for PC programs: There are chess programs which are sold in two versions; a cheap single-CPU version and a more expensive multi-CPU version.
Imagine that if you bought a PC program, you would have to buy a new one every time you changed your monitor size !!!
In a way, there is something vaguely analogous for PC programs: There are chess programs which are sold in two versions; a cheap single-CPU version and a more expensive multi-CPU version.
Thanks for pointing that out, Tord. I also feel it's total robbery. You must have a sad smile yourself seeing this, when you remember that all it took for you to release an iOS version for the iPad's 2-cored A5 was to alter a single line of source code... :/ (although of course it was possible because you put some time into the SMP code before...)
But well, if people keep supporting those practices by buying these programs it will continue. In a liberal economy everything is always worth what people are ready to pay for it.
