After reading the developer's explanation of why they are dropping Drag Thing development, their decision makes sense. Had they developed it in the Cocoa instead of the Carbon environment their decision might have been different. but the computer market continues to shrink slowly while the smartphone/tablet market continues to grow and the iPad Pro is arguably more powerful than the MacBook Pro. Because their other product, pCalc, is both MacOS and iOS it has tens of millions more potential customers than drag thing will ever have and from a business standpoint that cannot be ignored.

Thinking about this it occurs to me Apples new APIs which permit the same app to run on both MacOS and iOS could easily be the savior of a lot of MacOS apps.


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