Interesting point. Reminds me of so many of the strategy games we must
have all played. Warcraft / Starcraft, SimCity, Railroad Tycoon etc.
In each game the point is to make the right choices to utilise your
resources to the best effect. Spend too much on development and you get
overthrown. Get too aggressive and find yourself weak later in the
story.
You mention some successes Apple is having. Getting their toes in
places that would not take a look a few years back. I wonder what the
state of the game would be today if we were using WO with a hundred
programmers constantly working to improve it. We would have a state of
the art development and deployment tool.
But would we have a company to buy these products from? Would Apple
have made progress in other areas? Perhaps we would be running WO 6.5
on OS 10.1.55, installed on a colourful G3 iMac.
I have said this on this forum before, but while I don't like feeling
neglected any less than the next guy I have to assume that the people
running this company have knowledge and experience I will never have.
They didn't get where they are by taking short cuts (well, most of the
time anyway).
When it comes down to it, I am using a product that I admire and
appreciate. I would like more, but unfortunately in this game there are
no cheats we can type in to give Apple all the resources it needs to
conquer the PC world. And when it comes to Microsoft, honestly I would
prefer to be beaten by them (market-share wise) than to be like them!
Perhaps there should be a little less grumbling and more understanding
that Apple can only do so much at one time. The last thing I want is to
abuse the people working so hard to give us this product, and drive
them away to somewhere where they are appreciated more.
Game over?
r
On 01/07/2004, at 17:26, Karl Gretton wrote:
Will WO have its day again? Maybe. Apple is certainly getting
attention in the Enterprise space. Oracle is pushing 10g on Apple.
Sybase says that it is getting great performance from a 1U 2CPU G5
server...the throughput is constrained by the power of the CPU and
nothing else.
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