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		syncopate on June 20, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: If you were involved in the OpenGL ES specificatio... Just some numbers, based on my hardware: Lion OS X install on disk: 7GB iOS 5.0.1 install: 1.7GB My MacBook's RAM: 8GB iPod Touch: 512KB MB's disk size: 100GB iPod Touch: 8GB So: Maybe they removed 80% of the API in general because the iPhone/iPod touch is only 10-20% of a normal computer? Something had to go.

fpgeek on June 20, 2012 [–]

jwz is complaining about OpenGL 1.3 support. It might be worth asking yourself what computers were like when OpenGL 1.3 was released (August 2001).

P.S. I'm guessing your iPod touch has 512MB of RAM, not 512KB.

CrazedGeek on June 20, 2012 | [–]

It actually has 128MB or 256MB of RAM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_Touch#Models

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