I would argue that even basic support for Quartz Composer files on the
iPhone and iPad would be insanely valuable. Even if Apple threw out
some of the more advanced patches (CI filters/Video Input/Audio
Processor etc) it would still leave a great deal of functionality
available to developers who want to create fluid interfaces without
having to implement in Cocoa.
Allowing my speculation to run wild for a moment, I might even suggest
that Apple are moving in this direction anyway. Why else would the new
interactive placement mode and multi-touch gesture support be
available in QC4, if it weren't in anticipation of a multi-touch
platform?
Ade.
On 1 Feb 2010, at 15:42, Alex Drinkwater wrote:
Still, there's not a lot of power in an iphone or ipad, and QC is
pretty demanding. I suspect it would be a lot of work to port, and
might not be totally compatible with the desktop framework. The
rewards of porting it might not be worthwhile for apple - that
seems a
more likely reason for it not happening to me.
That seems to make sense to me. The thing you have to remember about
QC is that it's not a standalone application, in the sense that it's
built on top of a whole suite of technologies that are part of the
MacOS, but aren't necessarily available on the iPhone, because of
hardware limitations, mainly. So porting QC would involve also
porting a load of other stuff, that might not be possible to make
run on the iPhone with any reasonable level of performance.
a|x
Chris
On 1 February 2010 15:00, Oscar Font <[email protected]> wrote:
... and since it is interpreted, likely, there will never be!
Is that a straight affirmation? No chances to see QC in any apple
devices in
a future? Shame!
There is a reflexion that we all made already. The future is all
computers
will be more and more handly portable, as iPad, iPhone. Right now
there are,
OS X, OS Chrome, Linux, iPhone OS X and Android. as an OS willing
to be on
any device. (forget windows).
I honestly think that all should mix to one OS (opensource) for
the best
of/for all.... but this is decided on the market, not on what is
good for
the people.
Some thoughts..
Oscar.
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