OS 9.2.2 - Apple a big dissepointment. - Applescript TOO difficult to use for good business ! ?
OS 9.2.2 - Apple a big dissepointment. - Applescript TOO difficult to use for good business ! ?
- Subject: OS 9.2.2 - Apple a big dissepointment. - Applescript TOO difficult to use for good business ! ?
- From: "Søren Rehné" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 19:21:40 +0100
- Organization: Knowbody ApS
Well, I've always been speaking highly about the mac
when I was around PC guys. But that has stopped completely.
Microsoft's release of XP is a big positive supprise.
Off course I have my MacOSX 10.1.2 to talk about (unix and all),
but when it gets down to being a developer ... well ...
it seems like Apple dosn't care about developers within
proffesional companies.
My company has been making a good business on building publishing
solutions for Quark, InDesign and Framemaker.
Me primary tool WAS the mac.
The solutions have been build in FaceSpan and RealBasic, and
AppleScript Studio LOOKED to become an interesting program.
But not any longer.
If applescript is going to be a major player for developers we
simply CAN'T have situations like the "9.2.2 - bomb-raid"!
It makes my company look like a fool, when customers suddenly
have to hear me say: "It's the new 9.2.2, that make all these
problems".
And it is not very complex applications we are talking about.
It's even the simple ones.
Apple actually took a great and impressive step with the
introduction of the unix system! I've already been building
automisations that exploit the unix automatisions (cron-jobs
written in perl!) together with applescript application.
You can make some great applications where you use
apache and XML to receive SOAP calles and then turn theres in
to automasations of desktop applications !!!
But all this wonderfull stuff collapses when you can't build
applications, that are stable within "reasonable amount of
OS versions" - YES I would expect small upgrades like 9.1.x ->
9.2.1 -> 9.2.2 to work WITHOUT these problems!
(A lot of my old Win95 programs STILL work in XP!)
My company will start spending TOO much time on stabelising
applications between these smaller OS upgrades.
And the problem will presumably continue for AppleScript under OSX .....
It is very easy for my company to abandom the Mac and continue
our developments on the pc platform - especially since
FrameMaker and InDesign runs OK on the PC (NOT Quark though).
But that step would simply hurt my heart SO MUCH... especially
with the promissing world of OSX!
But what do YOU say? IS it possible to have a GOOD business
based on developments on a mac / applescript???
BIG praier to Apple: PLEASE help us promote the Mac as
the best desktop development platform for grafical productions -
DON'T MAKE SUCH BIG HICKUPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love our mac's ... but not if I loose a lot of
money (developertime) on hickups..
Med Venlig Hilsen / With Kind Regards
Sxren Rehni
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