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In this chapter, we investigated how the iPhone and iPad are truly unique devices. You’ve seen what they’re capable of and how they stack up in the mobile computing world. We went into detail about their technical specifications as well as their physical limitations.
The biggest constraints in iPhone development are potentially slow networks, the relatively small size of the iPhone screen, and the unique input interface. Although the first two are common issues for other networked cell phones, the third isn’t.