On 1/17/06 10:19 PM, John Stiles didst favor us with:
> On Jan 17, 2006, at 6:46 PM, Laurence Harris wrote:
>
>> On 1/17/06 9:29 PM, David Duncan didst favor us with:
>>
>>> On Jan 17, 2006, at 09:10 PM, Laurence Harris wrote:
>>>
>>>>> http://developer.apple.com/dtkexchange/
>>>>>
>>>>> This will get you released hardware -- an iMac -- to keep.
>>>>
>>>> Was this part of the original agreement? I only recall that the
>>>> DTK machines
>>>> would have to be returned.
>>>
>>> I don't think so. I believe it was only announced after the keynote
>>> that introduced the Intel iMacs.
>>
>> Personally, I that stinks. It's a great surprise for people who got one, but
>> if you're a smaller developer who opted to not get a DTK because you didn't
>> feel a prerelease loaner justified spending $999 (and I know people who
>> decided to not get a DTK for just that reason), you might feel Apple misled
>> people in a way that favors larger developers.
>
> I don't think it would have been in Apple's best interest to
> preannounce to the world, "you can spend $999 now to get a $1699
> machine in a few months."
Please explain how encouraging more developers to have UBs available on day
one would not have been in Apple's best interest.
> They're being incredibly generous to their most faithful developers,
BS Loyalty is not necessarily measured by how much money you have to send
Apple unless maybe you're talking about customers. It's indisputable that
there are very loyal Mac developers who didn't feel they could justify $1000
on a loaner which for many would have just been a test machine since they
had to send it back. And there have been many companies who paid Apple
plenty of money...until they stop developing Mac software.
Apple *is* being incredibly generous to segment of their developers, just
not necessarily the most loyal developers because there are other factors at
work here for some people.
> the ones who worked overtime to have Universal Binaries on day one.
Spare me. I've been working overtime for most of the past five years to
produce Mac OS X software, working around bugs in Mac OS X, bugs in
Interface Builder, inadequate documentation, and a whole lot of other issues
that Apple should have been more generous in addressing for *all*
developers.
> Don't look so hard to find fault.
I'm not looking hard to find fault. I think the issue is obvious to anyone
who has his eyes open and isn't sitting on a DTK waiting for his new Intel
iMac.
The bottom line for me is that I believe Apple should have been up front
with everything relating to this program so that *all* developers -- large
and small, lots of money to spend or a little -- could make the best
decision possible.
Larry
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