C'mon Apple! DECIDE!
C'mon Apple! DECIDE!
- Subject: C'mon Apple! DECIDE!
- From: Mark Weinstein <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 22:22:52 -0700
I am a software developer in the Seattle area and have recently moved from
the Windoze platform over to the Mac and have several observations that I
would like to make. Please understand that I am not flaming Apple (or
anybody else for that matter), but it makes it much easier to understand why
software developers don't flock to develop for the platform.
1) I have been a software developer for a little over 20 years, and never
in my life have I seen such poor documentation. I have attempted to work
with Cocoa, Carbon and even WebObjects and have found that any documentation
that I have found that was even worth reading was not from Apple. In
addition to the quality of the documentation, it is nearly impossible to
even find anything more than quick samples here and there. If people are
being actively recruited as developers, why aren't they getting any support
or training out of the recruiter?
2) Now, I admit that I am not a strong C programmer, but I can certainly
get by. I have started to work with Cocoa and found that in general, it
seems really nice and stable. What I find annoying is that there is no
documentation on the very few frameworks that currently exist for Cocoa. I
have been scraping help off of a few web pages here and there, but I
certainly don't have enough information to build a full application. I have
searched Apple's web site and tried to go through their sample code, but
have found few Cocoa samples that did me any good.
3) Is Carbon a permanent or temporary technology? I ask because while I
want to develop applications for the Mac, I do not want to use Carbon if
time is not on my side in the long run. In addition, the majority of the
sample code on Apple's site is still built in CodeWarrior! I have been
working with and learning how to use Project Builder and Interface Builder
from every bit of documentation I find! Why are code samples still being
distributed in CW?
4) How long will it be before we actually see Cocoa frameworks for the
applications like QuickTime? I have a client right now that wants some
software developed to process video and due to the lack of documentation and
support that I have been able to find, I had to refer back to the PC.
Nobody hates doing this any more than me, but I didn't really feel that i
had an out.
Again, I do understand that migrating to a new technology like OSX can be
frustrating. I would love nothing more than to literally throw my Windoze
boxes out the window, but until I can successfully develop a useable
application on the Mac, I am stuck with it.
If anyone has any ideas or suggestions for me, I would love to hear them and
am very excited about being a new member of the Mac community!
Mark
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