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▲ owebmaster 3 days ago

Ask that mobile developer to deploy to different OSes, desktop, wide-screen and you'll find out

▲fkyoureadthedoc 3 days ago | parent [-]

Seems pretty common in mobile dev, the iPad is hugely popular and widescreen. Many apps also run on Mac desktop.

▲owebmaster 3 days ago | parent [-]

That would amount to a total of 25% of the devices connected to the internet.

▲fkyoureadthedoc 3 days ago | parent [-]

I have no idea what point you're trying to make here

▲owebmaster 3 days ago | parent [-]

It's easy to do layout right for such a small subset of the market.

▲fkyoureadthedoc 2 days ago | parent [-]

Not only does that not make any sense in the context of this discussion, "it's easy to do layout right for 1 billion devices instead of 4 billion" isn't a very compelling argument.

▲owebmaster 2 days ago | parent [-]

Oh my. Yeah. Your app working only on 1/4 of the devices in place of 100% is not compelling. What a waste of time.

▲fkyoureadthedoc a day ago | parent [-]

First you said a mobile app developer doesn't have to worry about various screen sizes. But Android devices come in a ton of sizes and form factors. iPad apps are windowed and resizable, and a native Mac app runs on a system that connects to a monitor of arbitrary size.

So give that point was completely bunk, you changed it to something about the total number of internet connected devices. I have absolutely no clue why that is relevant, and you haven't explained why it is either.