By Dave Bailey 31 Oct 2011
I have recently joined the mac world - and I'm using a macbook pro which came with Lion. I find the multi touch gestures work like a dream, and are far more intuitive than I expected them to be.
I always do scrolling via the multi-touch, using two fingers, and so have never needed to use the overlay scroll bars.
Posted by: David Campion 23 Jan 2012
OK, it's a fair cop guv, I should've maybe gone a bit deeper into the common Darwin Framework which Cocoa expands on to provide the touchy-feely iOS functions. I'm assuming that providing you select the right base SDK and target, decent C++ coding would allow easy feature and App migration, but maybe only App Store app developers and Apple's programmers could define how easy.
Posted by: Dave Bailey 03 Nov 2011
"iOS and Mac OS X share a common code base (C++)"
Er... What? Where did that come from? Perhaps you meant Cocoa?
It's true that Darwin, the Unix base on which both iOS and OS X are built, is programmed in C/C++.
But if the only thing in common between a pair of OSes is that they are programmed using C++, that doesn't mean you're going to be able to easily share code between them. What makes it easy for Apple is that most of the software stack underneath the GUI layer is more or less identical across OS X and iOS, namely Darwin + Cocoa.
Posted by: Harry 02 Nov 2011
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