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Simply put, the model is the data (and by extension the HTML content of a website or app), the view is what you see on the screen (defined by the CSS styles of the user interface) and the controller is the logic that ties the two together (often expressed as the JavaScript or other interactive programming).
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By default, an app and a view controller's supported interface orientations are set toUIInterfaceOrientationMaskAll for the iPad idiom and UIInterfaceOrientationMaskAllButUpsideDown for the iPhone idiom.
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The XDJ-AERO also functions as a 24-bit audio interface, MIDI controller for Traktor and HID controller for Virtual DJ software.
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The QCA1990 software stack complies with the NFC Forum Controller Interface (NCI) and is fully integrated to enable faster time-to-market for customers.
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Microsoft Kinect, especially, has gotten a lot of buzz for its controller-less gameplay and interface.
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While the Xbox 360 requires a quick trip to the dashboard to edit things like resolution and audio output, the Echo is easily configured without a gaming controller, thanks to a user interface that has the same look and feel as the rest of Media Center.
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Its iDrive user interface consists of an LCD panel mounted in the dashboard and a controller knob mounted on the center console, and it controls a vast and disparate number of functions in BMWs.
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In the interests of simplifying the man-machine interface, the Lexus unit combines four buttons, one rocker switch and one compass controller, which is as delicate as a Norden bomb sight.
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The 7280 ditches the keypad altogether and goes for a pen-shaped design and some weird new NaviSpinner controller that you're supposed to use to navigate the user interface (so how do you dial?).
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