The irony is I think CN1 would have way more adoption if JS was part of the pro tier. The whole thing is strangled by needing 4k us a year, which is lets be honest quite ridiculous (unless you have big corps using it and that takes SOME convincing, though I have used it for some of the largest marketing companies in the world and one of the largest oil companies in the world - but neither were happy when they found out during post release maintenance, they treated me like I had just conned them badly in some ways). All of my clients are like oh shit its not free? I know you cannot make money from giving this out for free, but I thought you have a ton of pro subs. What might be a nicer business model is giving everyone everything in pro but charging for making a "release" build. That way we could work with debug builds until all is perfect, then pay maybe X us per release build. But then one small change is gonna hurt :) Maybe I am too poor :)
That said if we download and build it all ourself, everything is free right ? I may just consider my own CN1 server, but surely somehow you wont allow this ?? Or why wouldnt eveyrone be doing it, and why wouldnt someone set one up and charge 50% less than you guys? That I assume is illegal. I am willing to set my own server up (and of course not let anyone else use it) if that is legal and free and I can keep updating ? Would it give me JS builds? Cheers Gaz. On 27 July 2017 at 05:48, Bryan Buchanan <[email protected]> wrote: > "It's really hard to grow a company on 19USD or 79USD." > > My thoughts on this, as a LWUIT/CN1 user from way back, but who does > mobile as a sideline > > (1) the main issue you have in getting people to use CN1 is that the > "native" L&F is not actually native widgets but is CN1's best effort to > emulate them. For me this is not an issue because > (2) CN1 is about the only tool that allows the creation of an identical > L&F across all platforms, which IMO is a major benefit - it's MY app, not > Google's or Apple's or Microsoft's. So long as I don't try an implement > some weird UI paradigm, I don't see why my app must slavishly follow the > vendors L&F. > (3) The only way I can see CN1 getting huge adoption is if an "Angry > Birds" or similar was developed with CN1, which would generate lots of > developer mindshare. (2) above is a huge plus for a wildly successful app > in that the app is functionally identical across all platforms, and (1) > above is irrelevant - people will expect the app to run identically across > all platforms. > (4) because of the way (2) is implemented in CN1, the fidelity of the app > is far greater than any apps that essentially wrap a browser widget (and > therefore don't adhere to native widgets L&F anyway), so this is a great > plus for CN1. > > I realise none of this is particularly relevant to Gareth's desire to use > Javascript. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "CodenameOne Discussions" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > topic/codenameone-discussions/LT68tscyuKs/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/ > group/codenameone-discussions. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/codenameone-discussions/d0b4f473-dd11-4ed2-bb34- > d47548473fb2%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/codenameone-discussions/d0b4f473-dd11-4ed2-bb34-d47548473fb2%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Gareth Murfin (Android Freelancer - www.garethmurfin.co.uk) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CodenameOne Discussions" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/codenameone-discussions. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/codenameone-discussions/CANOaY6kX3TcbB8z3JYG5cx41yOBUmPB3%2BX3MmLDA7p5fCnLNZw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
