Stockfish for iOS no longer in App Store!

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Re: Stockfish for iOS no longer in App Store!

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scchess wrote: Thu Jan 12, 2023 5:15 pm 100% disagreed your statement that only the original Stockfish was good, in fact it was the other way... The world has changed a lot since the introduction of the app. This is not the same era as it used to be. We need to move forward and embrace the future not the past. I can bring back the Stockfish app to the App Store, but why not just move on? To me, the best app design is not my designed SmallFish or other mentions in this post, but "Really Bad Chess". I like the design very much, it's coded in Unity. I'm planning to do the next app release for something similar.
"Readly Bad Chess" is interesting, if somewhat gimmicky.

I guess some aspects of GUI design are subjective. It wasn't my intention to insult anyone, and I hadn't realized the authors of some of these apps are in the thread — if you were insulted then I apologize.

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Re: Stockfish for iOS no longer in App Store!

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Steve Maughan wrote: Thu Jan 12, 2023 6:54 pm
scchess wrote: Thu Jan 12, 2023 5:15 pm 100% disagreed your statement that only the original Stockfish was good, in fact it was the other way... The world has changed a lot since the introduction of the app. This is not the same era as it used to be. We need to move forward and embrace the future not the past. I can bring back the Stockfish app to the App Store, but why not just move on? To me, the best app design is not my designed SmallFish or other mentions in this post, but "Really Bad Chess". I like the design very much, it's coded in Unity. I'm planning to do the next app release for something similar.
"Readly Bad Chess" is interesting, if somewhat gimmicky.

I guess some aspects of GUI design are subjective. It wasn't my intention to insult anyone, and I hadn't realized the authors of some of these apps are in the thread — if you were insulted then I apologize.

— Steve
No, I am good. My point was that the old Stockfish app is very old, people could have made it back to the store but it's time to do innovations.