I think MS learned a valuable lesson from RT with its limited subset of apps written for the ARM CPU. Modern MS tablets are using the new quad-core Atom which is Intel. It will even run LiveCode on a tablet! If Windows phone does the same, there's no reason not to support it. On Aug 17, 2015 10:55 PM, "Mike Bonner" <bonnm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Windows 8? No. 10? Yeah probably. If LC can be updated to be compliant > with the UAP (universal app platform) If I understand correctly, dong that > means it'll run on win 10, win 10 phones etc. Not sure how the backwards > compatibility works though, and its possible I am way off base here too. > > On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 8:45 PM, Peter W A Wood <peterwaw...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > There have been quite a few comments and clearly a number of different > > views amongst members of the community. I would like to add my > perspective. > > > > The LiveCode Kickstarter campaign was very unusual in that the LiveCode > > could fulfil all of the rewards without actually having to complete the > > project. The rewards consisted of gifts and existing LiveCode products. > > > > In one sense, LiveCode completed the Kickstarter campaign when all the > > rewards had been delivered. I’m sure that Kickstarter would take this > view. > > > > LiveCode kept to the biggest promise it made, LiveCode has been > > open-sourced under the GPL and is freely accessible on Github. > > > > That leaves the other promises made during the Kickstarter campaign. Some > > made initially, some made as stretch goals. I have no doubt that these > > promises were very genuine. Clearly, LiveCode hasn’t been able to deliver > > them in the time they expected. This could be to any number of causes; > > under estimating and resources not being available being the most likely. > > > > To their great credit, the LiveCode team still appears to be committed to > > meeting its Kickstarter promises even though the funds raised to do so > must > > have run out a long time ago. > > > > My concern is that it is human nature to push promises made a long time > > ago to the back of our minds. If my report card serves any purpose, it is > > simply to keep the promises in view. > > > > I would like the promises to be kept. However, if LiveCode were to give a > > reasonable explanation (with an apology) why a promise could no longer be > > met, I would accept it given that I got my rewards, LiveCode has been > > open-sourced, and many of the “feature” promises have been met. > > > > Peter > > > > PS Does anybody still think it is worth LiveCode supporting Windows 8 > > Phone? > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > use-livecode mailing list > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > > subscription preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
