Apple, Are You Listening?
Apple, Are You Listening?
- Subject: Apple, Are You Listening?
- From: Karl Goiser <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 23:13:25 +1000
Hello,
I am generally a lurker, sometimes popping up to ask an inane question,
often too late to contribute to the list...
What is the cocoa-dev mailing list? When you think about it, it is
actually a problem solving list: somebody asks, "how do you do this",
or "I can't get this to work" and generous people respond with
suggestions.
It occurred to me the other day that the cocoa-dev mailing list could
be used by Apple as a source for determining areas that could be
improved. So.. if they looked at the types of problems that people on
the list have and did a simple frequency count, they'd find the most
common problems and problem areas. These areas could then be targeted
with better documentation, tech notes or addressing the code base
itself.
For example, my impression (off the top of my head and probably wrong,
but as an example) is that the most common problem areas are:
- memory
- table view
- bindings
(not necessarily in that order).
Of course, the next step would be to look at the problem areas and try
to find out why people have problems with them and try to address the
issue in general.
Image the possibility of diminishing the number of messages to the list
by pre-empting problems?
So, this might be countered by saying that that's what the faq's and
searchable archives are about. True. But consider the extreme case
where Apple might look at an area where people are having problems and
fix it in the code. Wouldn't that be wonderful and fantastic for
everybody?
Anyway, just my AU$0.02
Karl
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