I am opening up a thread for discussion. It seems clear to me that the global market is more and more on mobile devices. Most people access facebook through various apps and fewer and fewer actually go to the trouble to type in the address bar. iOS and Android are huge. And when you look at Windows 8 and Mountain lion there is a clear integration to make it more mobile "feeling". On Windows RT, you cannot install older windows software applications, and while Windows 8 allows you to keep much of the older software, it is seems pretty evident (in my mind at least) that Microsoft want to people people more and more towards the Metro Interface (i.e. pretty tiles).
Clearly this massive change will not happen over night. However it seems that Bible works is in for a huge problem. Now, they will off set a bit of this because they finally ported it into a mac version (that clearly looks like a port). Good for them. But the problem remains that most software now a days is multi-platform. Office is coming for Android and iOS early next year. iTunes does work on windows (and is easily imported with WINE into Linux). Google docs works in any browser. And on and on. But Bible works has always remained inexpensive because they tried to work on minimizing interface updates, getting good book licenses, and focusing on Bible study in a narrow sense of studying its text. While I am grateful for this, it remains a very old piece of software. Old doesn't mean bad, but now that more and more touch screen is becoming a standard... Touch with Bible Works is horribly awkward. I tried the other day Bible Works on a windows 8 tablet (not RT) and it was a horrible experience and the layout makes it near impossible to use with any profit. The UI wasn't the only problem, but also reading it was cluttered and hard because you can't change the background or font.
I'm no expert in programming (though I'm starting to flirt with python a bit), but given the days of the desktop are numbered and its death sentence could be 9 (corny joke), eventually microsoft will be forced to stop supporting older versions (XP stops this year, and vista and 7 will probably be around for a while but 6-7 years seems like a max) and the desktop in windows (at least have we also knew it, so what is Bible Work's long term strategy? They only recently created a very basic port for Mac Desktop, but the trend seems to be going mobile, so what do you think? They seem to be very resistant to the move towards touch, mobile, etc. over there, but this could apply to a lot of companies and programs also. Thoughts?
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Joseph G.
Québec, QC
Clearly this massive change will not happen over night. However it seems that Bible works is in for a huge problem. Now, they will off set a bit of this because they finally ported it into a mac version (that clearly looks like a port). Good for them. But the problem remains that most software now a days is multi-platform. Office is coming for Android and iOS early next year. iTunes does work on windows (and is easily imported with WINE into Linux). Google docs works in any browser. And on and on. But Bible works has always remained inexpensive because they tried to work on minimizing interface updates, getting good book licenses, and focusing on Bible study in a narrow sense of studying its text. While I am grateful for this, it remains a very old piece of software. Old doesn't mean bad, but now that more and more touch screen is becoming a standard... Touch with Bible Works is horribly awkward. I tried the other day Bible Works on a windows 8 tablet (not RT) and it was a horrible experience and the layout makes it near impossible to use with any profit. The UI wasn't the only problem, but also reading it was cluttered and hard because you can't change the background or font.
I'm no expert in programming (though I'm starting to flirt with python a bit), but given the days of the desktop are numbered and its death sentence could be 9 (corny joke), eventually microsoft will be forced to stop supporting older versions (XP stops this year, and vista and 7 will probably be around for a while but 6-7 years seems like a max) and the desktop in windows (at least have we also knew it, so what is Bible Work's long term strategy? They only recently created a very basic port for Mac Desktop, but the trend seems to be going mobile, so what do you think? They seem to be very resistant to the move towards touch, mobile, etc. over there, but this could apply to a lot of companies and programs also. Thoughts?
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Joseph G.
Québec, QC