Picture this in your minds eye. An infomercial on TV like we used to see; a high-energy "Juice-Man" type, doing a demo for the "unwashed-masses". EVERYONE CAN CODE, the crazy caterpillar-browed man says, and goes on to show some easy yet beneficial beginners apps. A website address, a toll-free number, and "Three easy payments of $__.95" scrolls across the bottom of the television.
My point is, there are wanna-be-programmers out there who don't even know they CAN BE programmers because they think it's too difficult to learn. You have to get the word out beyond this list. ~Roger On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> wrote: > Erik Beugelaar wrote: > > > The suggestion of Alex is a reasonable option for this iOS only > > deploy problem in my opinion. > > As long as Apple's Apps Store's Terms of Service (ToS) clashes with > > the GPL a temporary solution could be a Hosted iOS Builder service. > > This can be a subscription model ($/year) or you pay per service > > build ($). > > It was less than just two years ago that the company offered pretty much > exactly that, for $99/yr. > > That wasn't so long ago. Have we all forgotten already? > > It if was the magic recipe to solve this problem I would imagine it would > still be offered today. > > But despite the company's willingness to experiment with this pricing > option so frequently and ardently suggested by some of the folks here, in > practice it didn't really have much uptake and made no substantial > contribution to the expenses incurred in delivering LiveCode. > > In fact, those of us who've been here a while should be able to recall > that the company has experimented with a very wide range of pricing and > packaging options. Many of those experiments, like the iOS deployment > option, were the result of conversations here. > > It's not like the company hasn't listened. > > I believe it's more that the nature of the dev tools game is very > different from more end-user-facing software markets, and very few members > of this list have direct experience successfully managing the development > and publishing of a multi-platform dev tool. So despite the best of > intentions, the challenge does indeed elude easy answer. > > I think it's helpful that we all keep an open mind, community and company > alike, as we continue to explore new options going forward. > > It may well be that there's a magic price/package combo that will make the > difference. Clearly no magic recipe has been found thus far. But for such > proposals to be seriously considered, it helps that there's at least as > much research behind them to distinguish them from things already tried. > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web > ____________________________________________________________________ > ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
