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| From | Davoud <star@sky.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.system, uk.comp.sys.mac, comp.mobile.ipad |
| Subject | Re: The trouble with software |
| Date | 2014-06-08 19:35 -0400 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <080620141935091461%star@sky.net> (permalink) |
| References | <do_ray_me-DEE327.12310308062014@aioe.org> |
Cross-posted to 3 groups.
dorayme: > The trouble with software is often a result of it chewing off more > than it can swallow. There is often an impossible aim to be everything > to everyone. > > It's a big world, better for app makers to make *small* apps that do a > *very* limited number of things well, let other apps do other things. > > In making apps for iPads, for example, where prices are generally low, > there is surely less pressure to make hugely complicated apps, the > marketing is simpler. The pressure that app makers feel to go > complicated is perhaps psychological rather evidence based. Thank you for advising me in another thread that I am a "pretentious stuck up little shit." Taking that as read, I would argue that some apps are designed to perform complex tasks, and thus cannot be small and very limited. I hold up Software Bisque's TheSky X (Mac, Windows, iOS) as an exemplar. Star charting with fast response, telescope mount control, guide-camera control, imaging-camera control, astrometry, mount alignment utility... All related tasks, all easier to use when they are available in tabs in the same application. Ideal for pretentious stuck up little shit astronomers like me. -- I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that you will say in your entire life. usenet *at* davidillig dawt cawm
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Re: The trouble with software Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2014-06-08 19:35 -0400
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