HyperCard for the iPad

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Thu May 20 10:36:51 EDT 2010


David Bovill wrote:

> So perhaps it is worth asking along which lines a real HyperCard app could
> be made on the iPhone?

Jeanne DeVoto shared this link with the improve-rev list recently, a 
blog written by someone who used to work at Apple who applies the 
insights from his history there to this iPhone OS debacle:

<http://mobileopportunity.blogspot.com/2010/05/apple-adobe-and-openness-lets-get-real.html>

The crux of his entry is:

   So the real situation around Flash is that Apple won't permit
   most other platforms on iPhone (no matter how innocuous they
   are) because it thinks they threaten its survival, while Adobe
   wants its platform on iPhone so it can set a de facto standard
   and make money from it. Neither company is really focused on
   protecting developers or users as its main goal; they are
   fighting over who gets to use developers to make money.


I believe Apple would allow a HyperCard-like app for the iPhone/iPad 
only if they could have complete assurances it would be available 
EXCLUSIVELY for iPhone OS.

Someone may do it, but given that Apple recently cited their mobile 
market share at only 16.1% it ain't gonna be anyone I know.

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World
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