Re: Cocoa et al as HCI usability problem
Re: Cocoa et al as HCI usability problem
- Subject: Re: Cocoa et al as HCI usability problem
- From: j o a r <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 10:56:05 -0700
On May 19, 2008, at 10:33 AM, Peter Duniho wrote:
In any case, it takes a pretty blind eye to claim that the volume of
complaints is in no way related to problems.
I would expect that the volume of complaints is pretty much directly
related to the over 100.000 downloads of the iPhone SDK that happened
over the last several weeks. Who can look at that number and not
expect to hear from a lot of confused programmers trying to learn [1]
a new language, [2] a new framework and [3] a new OS at the same time?
Programmers have been productive on this platform (language, tools,
OS) for years and years. The tools, technologies and documentation is
better than ever. Are there still things that could be better? Of
course there is, but would that not always be true?
Whenever you, as a programmer, try to make this jump to a new platform
you have to suppress the urge to complain about everything that isn't
exactly like your old environment, or everything that you don't
understand right away. This is just like traveling to a different
country. Things that are different are not necessarily bad, and it
typically takes a while to understand why things work the way they do
(Take it from me, I just moved to the US). The point of traveling is
experiencing new things to learn from and get inspired by, and the
same holds true for learning about new environments as a programmer.
We welcome input from new users to our platform. It's great to have an
influx of new people come with fresh ideas. Please file bug reports
for any concrete problems you find or suggestions that you have:
<http://developer.apple.com/bugreporter/>
j o a r
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