The Road Map as it now is . . . . .

[Richard Gaskin]

Colin Holgate wrote:

 > The point made earlier about free apps that are to run on
 > specifically Android, is a valid, and RunRev should continue to
 > work on Android support. In your reply I think you also indirectly
 > argued that LiveCode should support Windows 8 devices, which is a
 > good idea too.

Maybe I seemed cleverer than I really am, since as far as I intended I 
was just writing about the two OSes RunRev currently advertises support for.

If we were seeing a majority of major apps deploying to Win 8/ARM and 
reporting making roughly equal revenue (if via different means) then 
we'd be fools not to want to follow them.

And maybe my reading is too limited, but I'm just not seeing that. 
Maybe down the road (I have a lot of faith that Nadella will outperform 
Ballmer), but at the moment I'm not seeing as much adoption anywhere 
within an order of magnitude of the other two mobile OSes RunRev already 
supports.


 > There’s yet another complication with devices like the Samsung Galaxy
 > Tab 3, which can run Android apps, but in an emulated mode (it uses
 > an Intel processor). So, LiveCode should also publish to Intel based
 > Android devices. In the Adobe AIR world they recently started to do
 > this, where you can specifically target Intel devices.

Given that Android is a VM, what exactly is required by Adobe to run on 
different CPU architectures?  How does Evernote handle this, or Angry 
Birds, or G+, or Facebook?

If all those apps are there and LiveCode isn't, you make a good case: 
once we get feature parity among the two OSes that comprise 96% of all 
mobile unit sales, LiveCode might indeed do well to add other platforms 
to the mix.

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  Richard Gaskin
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