App writing... Does anyone do this?

[swee'pea99]

Funnily enough I was reading about Moore's law earlier for a blog piece I'm writing.... Computer speed increments are slowing down... But still moving forward at quite pace

Memory is the one that gets me. When I started my company back in 1987, we got one of the first hard drives - it was 250Mb, and cost £250. 250Mb might not siund much, but the floppies we worked on held a maximum of 700Kb, so we thought 250Mb was just amazing. I just got a few stocking-filler memory sticks in the post today - 8Gb apiece, for £2.02, including delivery. That's 32x the capacity, for less than 1/100 the cost.

 

[simon the viking]

Memory is the one that gets me. When I started my company back in 1987, we got one of the first hard drives - it was 250Mb, and cost £250. 250Mb might not siund much, but the floppies we worked on held a maximum of 700Kb, so we thought 250Mb was just amazing. I just got a few stocking-filler memory sticks in the post today - 8Gb apiece, for £2.02, including delivery. That's 32x the capacity, for less than 1/100 the cost.

Our computer room at school had a Winchester hard drive in it which all the computers used to share ..... I think I'll write that blog piece about smartphones v vintage super computers instead of 'apping' tonight

 

[marknotgeorge]

I've tried writing Android stuff before, and found it a nightmare. Too many versions, and Eclipse is an awful IDE compared to Visual Studio or Qt. At the time, I couldn't get my head around apps being forcibly shut down, having come from Symbian, where the multitasking was better.

 

[pplpilot]

The Spectrum, and BBC B et.al. are museum pieces now. Tech tends to leap ahead, a 'generation' in tech, is about 3 years now

Still have my beeb model B and cub monitor, Dad bought it me in '83 I fire it up from time to time, to think they made these for a good 10 years or so.

 

[simon the viking]

Still have my beeb model B and cub monitor, Dad bought it me in '83 I fire it up from time to time, to think they made these for a good 10 years or so.

Wish I still had my speccie.....

 

[ColinJ]

I am thinking of learning HAXE which can (supposedly) take your software and deploy it to multiple platforms (iOS, Android, HTML5, Flash ... etc.).