Re: iphone looper ... apparently

[Aaron Leese <aaronleese@flyloops.com>]

Oh yeah, I'm with yah.  I know it's a ridiculous claim, I have
downloaded the SDKs and looked over it since, pretty slick libraries
.... but even fully native cocoa apps don't just run on the iPhone (sure
would be cool if they did).  Wonder why the misleading title .... I
think people have iPhone on the brain nowadays.


Jeff Larson wrote:
>
> > Right, JUCE is *mostly Cocoa now .... with a few carbon bits here and
> > there to support certain frameworks where Carbon is required.  I was
> > unsure where those bits were, but assumed they were substantial enough
> > to make my application not work ... perhaps I was wrong.
>
> I'll be pleasantly surprised if this is true, but I'm 99.9% certain
> this can't run on an iPhone.  It isn't just Cocoa, it's the Cocoa
> component library that was crafted specifically for the iPhone.
> I have an iTouch and I've dabbled with iPhone development.  You have to
> get a special version of Xcode with iPhone libraries.
>
> The other thing that is suspicious is that you can't just copy Mac 
> apps onto an iPhone.
> You either have to download them from Apple's "App Store" (which
> requires an approval process to put them there), or you have to buy the
> $500 commercial developer SDK which includes the tools necessary to
> distribute private apps. I just checked and Flyloops isn't in the App 
> Store.
> So unless the author shelled out $500 and built your app from source 
> code,
> I don't see how he could have run it on an iPhone.  I think he 
> misspoke in
> the article title.  The last para even says "Available for Mac and 
> Windows",
> nothing about iPhone in the text.
>
> Jeff
>
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