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If you know what you're doing(which Apple should since they created the constraint system), then it's not that hard especially with the current constraint structure. There really isn't any technical reason why they shouldn't be able to reimplement iTunes natively and use backend API's to just serve content.



I don't think it's as easy as you think.

Having played around with apples layout and general UI related stuff myself quite a lot I can tell you that it's a lot harder than webviews. We are talking perhaps 50X for the kind of stuff like the App store.


  > I don't think it's as easy as you think.
I've been developing iOS and Mac apps for 8 years so my response is based on that experience.


Yeah. So don't know how much web you have done. But in my experience and many others i know who have done both. It really is much harder than web.


  > So don't know how much web you have done.
I've been developing websites since 1998.


OK then I guess we just have to very different experiences of doing layout :)




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