Re: Kickstarter was not successful... but it did help things...

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hey,

Gregory Casamento wrote:
> Here's a radical idea: why not actually evaluate the goal first?  Before
> throwing people at the problem, figure out what good reason there was
> (if any) for Apple to go UIKit for mobile development instead of just
> expanding the AppKit API.  Perhaps the right thing to do for GNUstep
> doesn't involve *any* coders.
>
>
> Here's an even more radical one.  We've already done much of this analysis.
>   Just because you weren't involved doesn't mean it didn't happen.
>
> The reason for Apple to implement UIKit is very simple. AppKit processes
> mouse and keyboard driven events.  With a mouse you're forced to move the
> pointer from one location to another.  On a phone or tablet you know
> precisely where the user is pointing via touch events.  Another
> consideration was the difference in form factor as well as the fact that
> the framework needed to be lightweight and that is something AppKit isn't.
On the other side, you can have things work traditionally without a 
pointer without such a radical departure and it will still work, with 
more or less tweaking. Several modbile platforms were derived from 
desktop paradigms.

myStep, while unfinished, for example works quite well and scales on 
different devices like a phone or a tablet much better than iOS does.

So, in other words, while sadly not as integrated in development with us 
as we wish, we do have a mobile cousin. It works, it calls it even runs 
on hardware.

Riccardo

PS: this thread is becoming a dead horse