Zoot 6 - the solution ?

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Aug 5, 2011 at 04:46 PM

I beg to disagree. I believe that Tom has taken the only reasonable route to maintain his application relevant in a networking world: to link it with services like gmail, twitter and, yes, facebook (apparently facebook messaging competes with email in the number of messages sent worldwide). Yes, significant investment will be needed, but the alternative would be to lose the ever-expanding clientele which expects every software they purchase to be also available for web, iPhone, iPad, Android etc…

Providing such connectivity expands Zoot’s capabilities and accessibility without needing to develop for additional platforms.

I should note that a very significant percentage of software discussed here which I adore, is becoming more and more useless for me because I cannot use it in a collaborative setting.

Further, re social networking: I belong to a generation that did not have it or missed it, but now find that I need to learn it and use it, or else my own work will become largely irrelevant. I appreciate it when tools that are familiar to me (Zoot actually is not) evolve to cater for these changing circumstances.

Mark wrote:
>Another thing that discourages
>me is that the developer, Tom Davis, is building in all these hooks to web services like
>Facebook and Twitter, which I think is a mistake. Given how long it’s taken him to
>produce this latest version, that says to me that an inordinate amount of his future
>development time will be spent trying to keep it operating with those constantly
>changing APIs instead of on Zoot’s core information-handling tasks.