Re: Re[6]: Installer is not showing Upgrade button in Leopard
Re: Re[6]: Installer is not showing Upgrade button in Leopard
- Subject: Re: Re[6]: Installer is not showing Upgrade button in Leopard
- From: "Adam Fisk" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:08:55 +0530
It's just too tempting to get involved...
I came to a realization on all of this yesterday: Apple doesn't really
want us developing software for them. Seriously. With the exception
of a few products that really sell more Macs, like PhotoShop, Apple
prefers to write *all their own software.* We all know Jobs is a
control freak (although he's clearly got great qualities), and we've
seen Apple gradually replace all third-party software with their own
implementations. I really don't think they like the idea of
third-party developers coming in and writing apps that don't fit the
mold, that don't have the Apple stamp.
I think that's why you see things like trivial bugs in PackageMaker
persisting for years. The installer team is so far down on the
priority list it's not even on the radar. It's why the Java team is a
year behind and why Apple reluctantly announced an SDK for the iPhone
-- I think they would have preferred not to. The fact is, *Apple
doesn't ultimately make much money on the software we write* -- they
make it on their own software. Adobe is probably the only company
capable of influencing them in this regard at all.
They're the darling of the development community simply because they
write "Ubuntu with all the drivers working" -- aka "OSX". If all the
drivers worked all the time on Ubuntu or any other Linux variety, I'd
ditch Jobs in a second, and I know many others who would stampede
through that door.
Hmnn, yeah, I think I'm going to stop saying "OSX", and start saying
things like "have you heard about this new Unix where all the drivers
are always updated?"
Sorry to fan the flames, but I had a bit of an epiphany about all of
this yesterday, and our stars aligned.
>From Jaipur.
-Adam
On Nov 28, 2007 6:51 AM, Nathan Duran <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Nov 27, 2007, at 2:07 PM, Peter Mulholland wrote:
>
> > So is NSIS on Windows, which is more powerful.
>
> PM has most of the power I've ever needed personally, but its UI is
> confusing in its inconsistent use of terminology, its documentation
> sparse, and I'd certainly prefer that it didn't crash or corrupt its
> own project files constantly. I absolutely loathe having to launch
> that application because I just know something's going to break simply
> because I looked at it.
>
> > Hmm, I did initially hate Xcode, and I still prefer Visual Studio, but
> > it's not bad.
>
> It's certainly gotten better since Adobe made their demands clear, but
> its design philosophy remains centered around the notion that shell
> scripting support is an excuse for never implementing a lot of
> features that would actually make developers' lives easier, and I'm
> still waiting for basic things that CodeWarrior had a decade ago--like
> a text editor/code browser that could provide accurate syntax
> highlighting/hyperlink-style navigation AND keep up with an average
> person's typing speed on a 100MHz PPC 601, but we're way off topic now.
>
> The gist of my opining is that if Apple did 1/16th as much usability
> research for their developer tools as they do for the shiny trinkets
> that look good on TV there'd be fewer developers making silly mistakes
> and (probably) more good Mac software. Of course, there'd also be
> fewer DTS incidents from confused developers funding those
> researcher's salaries, so it's a tough nut to crack. I guess I just
> miss the days when there was actual competition in the Mac IDE market.
>
>
>
>
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