WriteMapper 4 is out for Mac and Windows

Posted by Dormouse
Dec 13, 2023 at 11:28 PM

satis wrote:

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>If suddenly we’re talking about a new cross-platform app I’d bet it’s
>an(other bloated, relatively slow) Electron app

I’m not sure we are. The Mac version will, as usual, be coming out before the Windows one.
I’m also not sure that Electron apps need to be bloated or slow. Some are pretty fast.
I’m sure it will be reasonably priced too.
My big question about it is ‘what’s it for?’, followed by ‘what new feature will it have that will make people want to buy it?’ I can appreciate that there’s no appetite for a Scrivener 4.

satis wrote:
>> Scrivener Windows users typically get features long after
>Mac users, and Windows users have dealt with a lot of bugs over the
>years.

I think part of the issue is that it’s a Mac app and there’s an insistence on trying to make the Windows version copy the Mac version exactly, which means features and optimisations are lost and none are gained because the Windows version is only a shadow.

Which is quite different to the approach taken by iAWriter where its Mac and Windows versions have somewhat different feature sets, with the Windows version even being ahead for a (brief) period.