Macaw V1 Released • Hacker News Board

Re: Macaw V1 Released

#41

Post by jbeja » Mon, Mar 31, 2014, 11:01 PM UTC

Sad is only for mac :(.

Re: Macaw V1 Released

#42

Post by hga » Mon, Mar 31, 2014, 11:04 PM UTC

fumar wrote: post #15

I am glad its not subscription based. "Price is a flat fee and not a subscription. Price includes all updates to version 1 of Macaw."

Yeah, but after reading their use and then privacy policy it sure looks like you have to be able to connect to their servers to start using it. I assume that if they go poof, so does your copies of application, short of cracking it. One would hope they have a provision for off-line use/starting it.

Re: Macaw V1 Released

#43

Post by hga » Mon, Mar 31, 2014, 11:04 PM UTC

jbeja wrote: post #41

Sad is only for mac :(.

Or Windows, XP or above.

Re: Macaw V1 Released

#44

Post by jbeja » Mon, Mar 31, 2014, 11:09 PM UTC

hga wrote: post #43

jbeja wrote: post #41

Sad is only for mac :(.

Or Windows, XP or above.

I use Linux :).

Re: Macaw V1 Released

#45

Post by hga » Mon, Mar 31, 2014, 11:16 PM UTC

jbeja wrote: post #44

hga wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or Windows, XP or above.

I use Linux :).

So do I.

But for the right program, I'd get a Windows VM running, or perhaps run it on a random machine. I swore off Macs in 1987, and the more I see of Apple, the more determined I am to never again use any of their products.

(For that matter, OS X is Apple's red headed stepchild, and everyone I know with a Mac is moving off the OS X ecosystem.)

Re: Macaw V1 Released

#46

Post by untilHellbanned » Mon, Mar 31, 2014, 11:22 PM UTC

Trying it out for about 15 minutes now...

First thought is that its more confusing than just making a HTML file and playing with that in Chrome+dev tools.

Re: Macaw V1 Released

#47

Post by radiorental » Mon, Mar 31, 2014, 11:30 PM UTC

jeremyt wrote: post #14

Some thoughts: I heard about this a couple months ago at a conference on rapid prototyping, and I've been waiting for it to come out in the hopes that we would finally have a rapid prototyping solution for user interface designs. I'm basically looking for a balsamiq with lots of built-in animations and UI interaction patterns. Unfortunately, it looks like this product is geared more towards being a full-featured WYSI…

take a look at Indigo Studio http://www.infragistics.com/products/indigo-studio

We evaluated it and liked it for pure interaction design.

Re: Macaw V1 Released

#48

Post by hydralist » Mon, Mar 31, 2014, 11:36 PM UTC

how soon will this be pirated?

Re: Macaw V1 Released

#49

Post by hadem » Mon, Mar 31, 2014, 11:42 PM UTC

publicfig wrote: post #7

This looks like a link to the sales page, here's a link to the main page as well. http://macaw.co/

I noticed this as well. Although I have seen the previous demos of Macaw, I'm very surprised there is no link back to their homepage anywhere on this page. This page offers very little information for software that costs $179!

How about some information about what potential customers are buying? Or at the very least, a link to where they can find this information.

Re: Macaw V1 Released

#50

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Mar 31, 2014, 11:44 PM UTC

cwaniak wrote: post #36

zz1 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And it ships with NSA backdoors! FREE

I heard that some of the open source developers work to seed the code with 0-days that can be sold for as much as $250k a pop to NSA… So… NOTHING IS FOR FREE! And with Apple you can at least get a decent GUI that doesn't make your eyes bleed.

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