Am 24.12.2013 um 00:21 schrieb James Carthew:
I'd just like to raise a point quickly. With the implementation of touch and mobile. Why would people be looking to install it? Most people do not use custom operating systems on mobile devices, they want it preinstalled, no jailbreaking, no mess etc. The main market of a gnustep implementation on touch devices would be iPad owners, but the devices are so locked down you can't even boot linux on them. Wouldn't it be better to aim for a market that isn't being served right now? Wine spends years and years trying to chase the windows/directx apis, but if they actually bothered implementing DirectX 1-6, I'd be using it a hell of a lot more than I bother to now. The same goes for gnustep, right now on gnustep, you can't even implement a web browser,
because there is a Web browser within GNUstep (called SWK).
or a lot of other application types like a network configuration tool, or a wireless configuration tool. Because the base API hasn't got support for these things.
These are usually so hardware specific that it is no problem to use fopen() and system() within an Objective-C application to implement these.
Now you want to rush into mobile? Developers on mobile will stick to XCode/iOS as they already know those tools and don't want to touch other platforms. They like the support/documentation which Apple provides. I think there's still a massive opportunity in Desktop to take market share and grow platform use. But someone actually has to stand up and offer a real alternative to Windows 8. It can't be that hard to do surely?
If you want an alternative Desktop that seamlessly works on mobile devices as well, please take a look at
http://www.quantum-step.com/