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The Demonstration site is similar to Google Play & the App Store except perhaps for the well-known restrictions/limitations it places its downloadable “apps” - its cdf files. Remove these and it might simulate richer, more useful and sophisticated "demonstrations" - what I’ll coin “Interactions”.

What would be the biggest hurdles to creating such Interactions?

Complexity: Too many dynamic variables would slow down any viable interaction.

Technical/Security: Integrating permissions, e-commerce platform, notebook/ipad/tablets, Wolfram alpha, would be too difficult.

Design: There would need to be a long lead-time for Tufte-like principles to be developed for these new interactions.

Cultural/Business Model: Too much control is being ceded by WRI.

Human Perception: The busyness of interactions with too many dynamic variables would overwhelm human perception.

None of these strike me as particularly insurmountable hurdles?

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Questions soliciting discussions and extended debate are not allowed here. You might try asking this at the MathGroup. – rm -rf♦ Dec 5 '12 at 3:31
Yes, I thought this might be pushing it but I wanted to link a future response to the post "Is learning to use Mathematica useful for pure theoretical research in Mathematics and Computer Science?" (also a little open-ended). Perhaps I should have phrased it "Is learning Mathematica useful for creating cdf's more sophisticated than those found on the Demonstrations site" :) – Ronald Monson Dec 5 '12 at 3:40

closed as not constructive by Jens, Simon Woods, Sjoerd C. de Vries, image_doctor, Leonid Shifrin Dec 5 '12 at 12:37

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