Re: What are we going to do about mobile? [OT]

2017-04-19 Thread Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) via Digitalmars-d
On 04/13/2017 06:16 PM, Joakim wrote: From a certain point of view, you could say PC sales are only down 25% from their peak, that's not dead yet. But the chart I linked shows their share of personal computing devices, including mobile, has dropped from 78% to a little less than 14% over the la

Re: What are we going to do about mobile? [OT]

2017-04-13 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 12 April 2017 at 19:20:27 UTC, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote: I *strongly* agree with the notion that mobile/ARM/iOS/'droid/etc needs to be a major part of D's immediate future. However... On 04/06/2017 01:24 AM, Joakim wrote: I have been saying for some time now that mobil

Re: What are we going to do about mobile? [OT]

2017-04-12 Thread Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) via Digitalmars-d
I *strongly* agree with the notion that mobile/ARM/iOS/'droid/etc needs to be a major part of D's immediate future. However... On 04/06/2017 01:24 AM, Joakim wrote: I have been saying for some time now that mobile is going to go after the desktop next (http://forum.dlang.org/thread/rionbqmtr

Re: What are we going to do about mobile? [OT]

2017-04-12 Thread Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) via Digitalmars-d
On 04/06/2017 08:52 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: I don't even own a mobile device and don't see that changing any time soon (they are really expensive, slow, and just generally hard to use*). That last point is so very true. Bugs me so much that 99.999% of mobile users never really understood the