I was looking at the Utorrent website, when something grabbed my eye.
http://www.utorrent.com/featured/utorrent-for-usb
It looks like Utorrent has their own Utorrent portable for those who buy one of their USB drives. The description sounds verry similar to the one PortableApps uses for their apps, and PA already has their own Utorrent Portable available for free.
Can anyone shed some light on this?
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I can't find the download link, so I'm guessing you have to buy the microSD, thus making it payware.
I'm not sure how different it is from our portable version though.
I doubt it's strictly payware. It seems to me like they're selling microSD cards/readers and convenience.
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I agree. This sounds like Linux LiveCD's; you can download the ISO image and burn it to disk yourself (free), or you can buy it pre-installed on a disk. The app itself is still freeware; you're paying for the USB stick and somebody else's time to load it onto the stick, and probably a bit extra to make it worth their while.
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uTorrent is natively portable. PortableApps.com just uses a fancy launcher to comply with the PortableApps format. IIRC it's trivial to make it act portable (save settings in program folder, not %APPDATA).
Our launcher also updates paths as you move PCs (properly, as of 2.0). uTorrent regular portable's will break as you move PCs. Our version also prevents you from accidentally latching onto an already-running local instance, leaving your torrents on the local PC. And it includes the current languages file as a convenience, too.
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Is the Utorrent being distributed with the Usb drives the same as the regular one?
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