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Re: 9 years of Apple text editor solo dev

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Post by sph »

coldtea wrote: post #362
sph wrote: post #21

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Why should the author care whether their price scales to Photoshop level? Price should scale with demand . A company like Adobe might want to maximise revenue, so they price it optimally to make the most money out of their product. A single developer might not want to support half a billion users at $5. If selling at $60 means a lower number of users and a manageable number of support requests per month, it is a much…

> Why should the author care whether their price scales to Photoshop level? The author shouldn't. Buyers should care what they're charged. > Pricing is hard, because it is not intuitive. And more importantly, the value of something is often subjective. People tend to forget that. And subjectivity often leads to stupid personal buying decisions. People tend to forget that.

No one is getting scammed here, even if it cost 1000x as much. Why are you saying buyers don't know what they are charged?

> stupid personal buying decisions

Why does it affect you so much what other people are doing with their money? Spoiler alert: it is none of your business, and you are taking it way too personal.

Re: 9 years of Apple text editor solo dev

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Post by papereditor »

pacifika wrote: post #326
papereditor wrote: post #73

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It's hand-crafted with TailwindCSS, vanilla HTML, and JS. I've worked on it for 2 months part-time. I was hoping it would get people's attention, and so it did. :) The component split is done by hand in Figma with regular screenshots and cropping. I also used a plugin for skewing.

I’m not sure why but non of the images are animating for me on iPhone 15 plus

The only reason I can think of is "Low power mode".

Re: 9 years of Apple text editor solo dev

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Post by papereditor »

jshier wrote: post #318
papereditor wrote: post #231

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I have not investigated it, to be honest. If it's as easy as switching the compiler to Swift, and everything remains working as is, but I also get to use all the Swift stuff in addition to Objective-C, then I am clearly missing out!

They are separate compilers. Obj-C is compiled by clang, Swift by the Swift compiler. You enable bridging in Xcode and then get access to your Obj-C code in Swift through the use of a bridging header, and Swift in Obj-C through the use of the *-Swift.h generated header. You can write classes in Swift that are visible to Obj-C and vice versa. You can't expose everything from Swift to Obj-C since Obj-C is missing most…

OK. I see.

I'll definitely give it a try at some point.

Thanks!

Re: 9 years of Apple text editor solo dev

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Post by germandiago »

Analemma_ wrote: post #184
germandiago wrote: post #173

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And you are now locked down to one environment.

The insistence that every application/framework must be cross-platform, or its worthless, is so bizarre to me. What is even the point of having multiple operating systems if they can't have distinct features to gain competitive advantage by attracting application developers? If operating systems can't differentiate, we might as well all use Windows. Cross-platform applications have their place, but sometimes I like h…

It is a matter of product: better to target more people better than fewer. Technology is usually secondary here.

Re: 9 years of Apple text editor solo dev

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Post by jimbokun »

dangwu wrote: post #314
lenkite wrote: post #255

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I wish Apple had stuck to Model-View-Controller instead of shoehorning React philosophy into their native UI framework. Personally, I find the "old-school" way of doing things far easier to follow and understand.

React is popular for a reason. Declarative UI is a million times easier to implement and maintain. If a total newbie had to learn UIKit and SwiftUI then pick one, they'd pick SwiftUI 100% of the time.

Until the input data gets larger and the performance grinds to a halt.

Re: 9 years of Apple text editor solo dev

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Post by meerita »

freetonik wrote: post #212
meerita wrote: post #208

I am still using IA/Writer in my Mac. I wrote 3 books with it. The only thing I dislike most in the the absurd pricing on the iOS app.

iA Writer feels weirdly sluggish on my iMac 2017 5K, especially compared to Paper.

I am using it in a M1 Pro and it's fast.

Re: 9 years of Apple text editor solo dev

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Post by coldtea »

sph wrote: post #391
coldtea wrote: post #362

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> Why should the author care whether their price scales to Photoshop level? The author shouldn't. Buyers should care what they're charged. > Pricing is hard, because it is not intuitive. And more importantly, the value of something is often subjective. People tend to forget that. And subjectivity often leads to stupid personal buying decisions. People tend to forget that.

No one is getting scammed here, even if it cost 1000x as much. Why are you saying buyers don't know what they are charged? > stupid personal buying decisions Why does it affect you so much what other people are doing with their money? Spoiler alert: it is none of your business, and you are taking it way too personal.

>No one is getting scammed here, even if it cost 1000x as much. Why are you saying buyers don't know what they are charged?

I'm obviously not saying they are blindly charged an amount that they don't know.

I'm saying that they are buying stuff influenced by the minimalist fashion/emotion/etc and they don't know they're overpaying for no good reason.

>Why does it affect you so much what other people are doing with their money?

Because I live in a society, not in the wilderness. What people do with their money affects everybody, and people making better decisions is good for society in general.

>Spoiler alert: it is none of your business, and you are taking it way too personal.

While answering to me is "your business"? And getting into direct personal comments (as opposed to making a general remark)?

Re: 9 years of Apple text editor solo dev

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Post by coldtea »

metafunctor wrote: post #387
coldtea wrote: post #364

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> If people find their app, like what they see, and are willing to pay the price, what is your objection exactly? My more general objection to your question is that I don't consider individual preference, or individual choice, or individual action beyond criticism, just because the individual is "fine with it". People can "find a product, like what they see, and be willing to pay the price", and the purchase could st…

Do you think you know better than the companies developing these products and the consumers buying them? Do you believe you understand what the right products and fair prices should be? This seems to justify your use of terms like 'highway robbery' and calling people 'stupid'. I would have words for such viewpoints, but for the sake of a civilized conversation, I won't express them here.

>Do you think you know better than the companies developing these products and the consumers buying them?

Yes.

Do you think it's impossible for someone else to know better than the buyer if the latter got a good deal for a product at a given price?

If so, I have a bridge to sell you.

>I would have words for such viewpoints, but for the sake of a civilized conversation, I won't express them here.

Good for you. I have similar words for your viewpoint.

Re: 9 years of Apple text editor solo dev

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Post by throwaway2037 »

sandyarmstrong wrote: post #196
throwaway2037 wrote: post #162

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> C# is a totally different story. Interesting. Can you share more details?

Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft, though I wasn't there during the early days of .NET or Windows Longhorn. C# was created as a Java competitor. Although it had great C interoperability, the underlying .NET Framework was still a VM-based runtime with a garbage collector and all the disadvantages that brings. You can probably find various articles ( https://longhorn.ms/the-reset/ is one) discussing attempts to adopt C#…

Thank you to share. My guess: In the year 2000, it was impossible with current desktop computing power to use C# for OS internals. In 2024, it is a different story.
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