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LiveCode Blog Posts ----> Business type and web apps ...

Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2015 4:21 pm
by shawnblc
For the past several months it seems like the LiveCode Blog has been focusing on mobile app development.

I'd like to see more blog posts on business type applications, internet aware applications, and web apps (html5 is coming). Show off the power of LC.
Very few mobile apps make money for the developer, however a business type app, internet aware app, or web app is much more likely to have a respectable ROI.

Just my opinion.

Re: LiveCode Blog Posts ----> Business type and web apps ...

Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2015 7:03 pm
by FourthWorld
Mine too. Mobile is obviously important, and for information consumption apps it can be a viable segment alone.

But any productivity apps would do well to have interoperable desktop counterparts, since attempting to write on a phone is one of the most arduous tasks known to man, and most real work still takes place on laptops and even desktops.

Even as I come across articles like this one focused on trying to convey how important mobile is, the subtext of the actual data is a very strong story for desktop software:
http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/238 ... rs-in-2015

We see there that while mobile use is indeed growing, and for certain activities has a small edge over desktop use, the most important part of the data is entirely overlooked: mobile use is an add-on to desktop use, which is holding very steady.

In fact, just a few weeks ago I came across articles noting a current decline in tablet sales in the US and EU markets, while oddly enough there's a modest uptick in desktop computers. You read that right: not laptops, which were accounted for separately and remain the single-biggest form factor for all productivity tasks from writing emails to making online purchases. They were looking at what Jobs called "trucks", beefy yet inexpensive desktop machines that even today provide more horsepower-per-dollar than any other device type.

For us LiveCode devs, the actual full scope of the market is a wonderful opportunity that our mobile-only competitors can't touch.

So yes, it would be great to see more articles celebrating the full scope of success across all of the platforms LiveCode supports.