Pharo is an IDE. IDEs don't run on tablets. On 22 February 2012 10:06, Guido Stepken <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Christoph! > > Jobs dropped FLASH for several important reasons: > > 1. Too much polling in there. Processor load was high, eating up batteries. > 2. Flash games with "onMouseOver" can't run on tablets. > 3. Event model was so oldfashioned, that Adobe decided to drop the VM. > > FLASH was the most successful virtual machine ever, hundreds of thousands > of applications, billions of users, dominating the whole market. > > Dead within only 2 years! Severe marketing and technical design mistakes > by the Adobe management, IMHO. > > Pharo suffers similar problems: GUI is not tablet-ready. Compare to > Android 4.0: Android has joined the 2.3 line for mobiles with tablet line > and has invested much much brainpower in finding out, how apps can be > designed, that they can comfortably be used on different resolutions, > portrait as well as landscape. Well done IMHO, even suited for desktop apps. > > Pharo also has too much polling code, is eating up batteries as well. > > As long as Apple does not allow fullsized interpreters in Appstore, there > is definitely no chance ever for Pharo to be brought onto tablet. > > I see no chances for Pharo on ARM, Tablets, whatever ... never ever! > > This increasing market with hundreds of millions hardware units is > completely lost for Smalltalkers, once again. > > Tablet apps will very soon even dominate the desktop market! > > regards, Guido Stepken > Am 22.02.2012 09:39 schrieb "Christoph Wysseier" <[email protected] > >: > > Dear Stef >> >> Am 22.02.12 08:32, schrieb Stéphane Ducasse: >> >>> I'm convinced that having support for multitouch event/ genie and others >>> works (for iPad = $$$$) is important. >>> >> >> Without pretending to know the future, IMHO standalone apps for tablets >> and mobile will disappear over time. Out of my perspective it would be far >> more important to move in the direction of web-based technologies also in >> this area. Looking at the success stories of Pharo and our own strategy I >> do not see the advantages of having multi-touch support for the development >> of such applications. >> >> Or did I misinterpret your intention? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Chris >> >> -- Milan Mimica http://sparklet.sf.net
