Platform Divergence

Richmond richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Tue Jun 23 15:43:54 EDT 2020


A plastic bath-toy that dumbs everything down for the fashionistas and 
rich, slack-jawed morons.

Vrey sad indeed.

On 23.06.20 22:36, Stephen Barncard via use-livecode wrote:
> Got really depressed watching the presentation.
>
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 12:22 Paul Dupuis via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
>> We make and sell a desktop application (Windows and macOS) for a niche
>> research market. I expect when Apple does their migration to a common
>> processor and OS, Apple Developer's will have to go through all of Apple
>> hoops for all their platforms.Most of our customer don't care about UI
>> widget animations. They want the app to do certain functions and do them
>> well and quickly to work with their data. As long as the UI is
>> effective, whether it conforms precisely to Microsoft or Apple UI
>> guidelines is secondary. So, even if you only care about desktops, your
>> app will have to be sold through Apple's single App Store, conform to
>> all screen sizes on all their devices, and follow all their UI
>> guidelines, etc.
>>
>> At that point, given that Windows is 2/3rd of our market and macOS
>> 1/3rd, we'll drop support for macOS sadly. I say sadly because our
>> application originated way back in the late 1980 as a HyperCard App for
>> MacOS.
>>
>> But, to your point, your concern IS valid for those people wanting Apps
>> from you that they insist MUST conform to all of Apple's esoteric
>> requirements. It is likely it will become increasingly harder for the
>> LiveCode ideal of develop once and deploy everywhere.
>>
>>
>> On 6/23/2020 2:56 PM, Jim Lambert via use-livecode wrote:
>>> This year’s WWDC shows Apple is moving to a unified ‘system' for all
>> their products: Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, AppleTV.
>>> The Apple development environment promises to produce a single app
>> capable of running on all, or almost all, of Apple devices. This
>> unification promises to be quite convenient for Apple developers.
>>> In contrast, over the last decade or so there has been an ever
>> increasing divergence in UX between major operating systems: Apple,
>> Windows, Linux, Android. The days when systems were so similar that you
>> could rely on the commonality of a handful of UI elements across platforms
>> seems over to me. That’s troubling because such commonality is fundamental
>> to LiveCode’s approach - write once, run everywhere.
>>> In watching WWDC sessions it’s pretty clear that even simple UI elements
>> have become more like UX elements having intrinsic and complex properties,
>> such as certain visual and behavioral animations. Users readily learn to
>> expect these behaviors. Yet such things are increasing difficult to fake
>> with LiveCode’s basic palette of objects.
>>> Enter LiveCode Builder and LC Widgets. They offer the promise of
>> platform-specific UI elements - a promise fulfilled with some simple
>> elements like iOS Native Button or Android Native Field. But I’m concerned
>> that as platforms diverge in the interface experiences they present to
>> users, that LC and LC developers will have difficulty satisfying users'
>> divergent expectations.
>>> Is my concern valid?
>>>
>>> Jim Lambert
>>>
>>>
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