Comments on: Imeem loves Android and iPhone ; slams BlackBerry http://musically.com/blog/2009/06/17/imeem-loves-android-slams-blackberry/ The Music Ally Weblog Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:21:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Kirn Gill http://musically.com/blog/2009/06/17/imeem-loves-android-slams-blackberry/comment-page-1/#comment-31330 Kirn Gill Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:37:30 +0000 http://musically.com/blog/?p=1706#comment-31330 "It’s a total pain to install anything on the BlackBerry," eh? It's no more difficult (and actually easier in some cases) than installing things on a Windows PC. You have a .jad file and one or more .cod file(s), throw them in a directory, and open the .jad on the BlackBerry. Or even easier: You have an .alx file, and one or more (usually just one) .cod file(s), and you feed the .alx to your sync software for automatic installation. What would he rather have? That to install apps, you download a fake hard disk (as a disk image), mount it so that the OS sees a hard disk that doesn't exist, and then you copy some folder from it to your machine, while the folder just looks like a single item? And what about starting said program? You double click the folder icon to start it, while the OS, behind your back, loads the real executable file from the Contents/MacOS/ subfolder? PS: This here really does describe application installation and launching under Mac OS X. Programs are actually folders with ".app" at the end, e.g. "Firefox" is "Firefox.app", and contain various subfolders. The actual binaries are stored in "Contents/MacOS" from there. So when you click on your "Firefox" icon, the OS is actually loading "Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin" to run your browser. “It’s a total pain to install anything on the BlackBerry,” eh? It’s no more difficult (and actually easier in some cases) than installing things on a Windows PC. You have a .jad file and one or more .cod file(s), throw them in a directory, and open the .jad on the BlackBerry.

Or even easier: You have an .alx file, and one or more (usually just one) .cod file(s), and you feed the .alx to your sync software for automatic installation.

What would he rather have? That to install apps, you download a fake hard disk (as a disk image), mount it so that the OS sees a hard disk that doesn’t exist, and then you copy some folder from it to your machine, while the folder just looks like a single item?

And what about starting said program? You double click the folder icon to start it, while the OS, behind your back, loads the real executable file from the Contents/MacOS/ subfolder?

PS: This here really does describe application installation and launching under Mac OS X. Programs are actually folders with “.app” at the end, e.g. “Firefox” is “Firefox.app”, and contain various subfolders. The actual binaries are stored in “Contents/MacOS” from there. So when you click on your “Firefox” icon, the OS is actually loading “Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin” to run your browser.

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