Hi,
Steve <butterands...@gmail.com> writes:
> Personally, I'd be willing to pay $100+ per year for the app. I don't expect
> it to be free, I'm thrilled that for the past number of years since leaving
> Quicken, that I have a program that "works". To have that information
> available to me wherever I am? Hard to put a price on it. Hard for me to
> imagine that if one is able to translate the current program to a mobile
> app, that it would not get wide adoption with whatever reasonable monthly
> charge.
>
> I'm just saying that with each passing day, having a program that is
> anchored to a desktop or laptop computer, makes increasingly less sense.
> Perhaps progress is being made behind the scenes, I sure hope so.
The issue at hand is that:
1) Building such an app would require time. It may be possible to
leverage the existing GnuCash for Android app, but it would require a
lot of extra work to handle real-time data syncronization. Also,
users would probably need/want an iOS version too.
2) We'd need to run a service that would enable data sharing between
the app and your desktop. The easiest way to do this would be a
hosted service that hosts your data wholesale. Another option would
be to enable you to run your own server, but I suspect MOST users
would not have the resources or skills to do that.
3) Before we could get any of this done, we'd need to complete the C++
rewrite of the main code which would enable porting to the other
platforms.
In short -- doing this would be a lot of work, it it would require a lot
of moving parts to come together. While I think it's a reasonable long
term goal, I don't see it happening in the next year or three without
some major influx of resources.
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-derek
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