[Lazarus] Delphi post-XE3 roadmap

[Marco van de Voort]

On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 02:38:23AM +0100, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On 24/08/12 21:38, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> > And the TUFKAM(*) option is a skin, not native, and thus not marketstorable.
> 
> I don't think the skinning is a big deal at all. Especially if you 
> consider that Microsoft itself created a "metro skin" for their flagship 
> product - Microsoft Office. Yes the new MS Office is NOT a real metro 
> app, but has the metro look.

Yes, I know your allegiances lie with owner drawn :-)

But try to see beyond the obvious, the bit is that from what I saw they mumble over
appstores and metro, but never admitting that they don't go together.

(same as that they mumble about mobile without shipping either an own or
FPC's arm compiler)

Then you will also see that your Office counterexample is irrelevant, since
app store rules don't apply to Office. (but they do to nearly everybody
else).

And then I'm even ignoring that the scale of something like Office is
beyond what nearly everybody can manage, including investments in making
owner drawn UIs very close.