Talk:SmileBASIC (Petit Computer 3)/@comment-24739388-20150918210735/@comment-24739388-20150920003027

Honestly, it's probably better this way. And I'm sure there could be a mechanism for distributing large projects (like the offline modem things we've been seeing), we just have to be clever enough. I think these restrictions encourage us to be better content creators and better programmers. If we develop a method for getting assets around without the server, we're better for it because we earned the experience of creating this system ourselves.

It sucks, but would you rather have an open-access system prone to abuse and Mario clones or a more closed system home to original games and programs? You have to choose if you're the company making the decision, and I think they made the right choice (except for the fact that they didn't include an offline mechanism, it shouldn't be hard and you can do it without using direct SD card access).