[OT-ish] WWDC things of interest

Mike Kerner MikeKerner at roadrunner.com
Wed Jun 15 16:19:20 EDT 2016


And I think what all of us want is more, faster.

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 4:16 PM, Mike Kerner <MikeKerner at roadrunner.com>
wrote:

> Apple says every ios connection must be encrypted by YE 2016
>
> http://www.zdnet.com/article/wwdc-2016-apple-ramps-up-privacy-now-all-ios-apps-must-encrypt-web-connections-by-year-end/?ftag=TRE17cfd61&bhid=21150576046427068198636522512581
>
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 2:17 PM, Lagi Pittas <iphonelagi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I second that emotion - (or is it third)
>>
>> I've been harping  on about this for over a year now  - LiveCodeTowers
>> should be putting libraries and courses in the Indy and Business licence
>> that is useful to the Foxpro, Clipper,Delphi,Dbase,Paradox ,VB6, Omnis and
>> dare I say it Filemaker people.
>>
>> Without wishing to flog a dead horse - you are trying to attract people to
>> write apps for IOS but they can't actually do that without an expensive
>> licence - oh its free but you can't write Apps for IOS or the Apple store.
>> Compare with "Here's a free car,  the windows work the horn works -
>> everything works all you need is an engine."
>>
>> I would be mighty pissed to find out after I had spent hours learning to
>> "write Apps" I couldn't deploy my "Crappy Bird" clone that isn't gonna
>> make
>> me any money anyway.
>>
>> A developer who has clientele  for Business critical applications that
>> earns thousands will see the value. If you want everyone to learn to
>> program (whatever that means) they can do it with the free one  and then
>> they decide thats it's too expensive afterwards - you have still lost a
>> sale. I have 2 enterprise versions of B4A and B4I just incase there is
>> something I can't do in LIvecode - hasn't happened yet and I think when V8
>> is a little more progressed it probably won't but always have a plan B.
>>
>> Now if you had 2 paid for options for IOS and Android - Separate versions
>> )
>> at a commensurate price to Apples Developer Tax you would get the numbers
>> who would then have a chance of gravitating to the "Full Fat" version of
>> livecode.
>>
>>
>> Sorry I'm talking to myself again.
>>
>> <RANT OFF>
>>
>> Lagi
>>
>>
>> On 15 June 2016 at 16:41, tbodine <bodine at bodinetraininggames.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Richard Gaskin wrote
>> > > Even if we develop on Mac or Linux, the majority of most of our income
>> > > comes from Windows users, and our income is what enables LC's income.
>> > >
>> > > The Mac audience may be two to three times larger than Linux, but both
>> > > are niches compared to the 86% using Windows.
>> >
>> > Richard makes a very important point here. I agree and wish to echo it.
>> >
>> > -- Tom Bodine
>> >
>> >
>> >
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On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth
On the second day, God created the oceans.
On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours,
   and did a little diving.
And God said, "This is good."



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