Hello everyone and Scrivener’s team,
First, sorry for my language, I’m not English.
This topic is about either we’re going to see, one day, a Scrivener app for Windows 10 or not. I know you’ve worked for a long time on iOS app and that was a serious challenge, but a windows app would serve exactly the sames purposes as the iOS one : explore and navigate through our files, some basic writing tools, flexibility, and mobility. As you said it in another thread : simply something that we could take with us one week without laptop.
With the rise of Surface pro, Surface book, and all the Windows 10 / 8.1 hybrids and 2 in 1 devices, I think there is a strong potential market. Every user of Windows Scrivener’s version would probably buy this app for the exact same reasons Mac users would buy the iOS one.
Plus : you don’t have any comptetitors at all on the Windows store right now ( there’s Ulysse on iOs though ). You could easily take the lead in writing softwares, by far. I think that, either we want it or not, the future belongs to tablets or at least, hybrids devices, especially for creatives. Laptops and Desktops are becoming “trucks” like Tim Cook said it, meaning that in some years, they will be used only for specific tasks like intensive gaming or really complex softwares. That’s no more about what a computer can do that tablets can’t but more about redefining our needs. People don’t want anymore softwares with 5000 options hidden everywhere. Yes they agree to loose some of those features for something more simple, intuitive and with a user-friendly graphic interface. Something that they’ve been used to with iOS and smartphones.
Kids nowadays don’t even need a computer to play at video games : there are plenty of it, and good ones, on iOS and Android. So yes, computers will still be used, but by a minority, by some pros or gamers. One computer per house will be widely enough for some basic operations that tablets can’t do.
All this to say that working on an iOS app is a good ( essential ) thing because this is probably the future. Writers / novelits… using iPhone or Ipad are searching first for a softawre that is both available on OSX and iOS. You got a point there over your competitors. And you could take some big points too by working on a Windows 10 app, where there is absoletuly no good writing tools at the moment.
Well, please keep in mind that it’s just my opinion and my point of view.
Let me know what’s your view and your plans about this and thank you for reading !