Re: Apple's Tools Strategy
Re: Apple's Tools Strategy
- Subject: Re: Apple's Tools Strategy
- From: Laurence Harris <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 14:28:50 -0400
On Oct 28, 2006, at 12:51 PM, Mark Munz wrote:
On 10/28/06, Turtle Creek Software <email@hidden>
wrote:
Again, generic "look and feel" helps nobody. Be specific. You can't
expect them to read your mind and quite frankly, I don't want Xcode to
just be a clone of CW. I've moved past that phase.
I agree, but when you have a fundamentally good product -- and CW was
that -- I have no problem with copying the parts that worked well for
people, especially when most of your users are going to be converts
from that product.
6. Fortunately, small companies can be profitable in places where
large
ones can't. So even though Apple can't turn a profit on the
next great IDE, I have faith that some smaller folks eventually will,
a la Metrowerks.
If they can -- great! But I personally think that Apple is doing a
pretty good job with Xcode. No, it's not perfect -- but each release
significantly improves my productivity.
Which is why it will pretty much be impossible for a third party to
produce a financially viable alternative. To make money on an
alternative to a free product you have to have something that's
pretty spectacular. And in this case you have the added issue of
compatibility. CW, as much as I loved it, usually had some hiccups
when new versions of the OS came out or Apple changed something in
the headers. I don't blame the MW folks, it was just a natural
consequence of them working outside Apple.
it's time to give us better tools!
Ugh! We all want better tools. Even CW doesn't meet that definition,
else there wouldn't have been 10 versions of it.
It's not nice to take pot shots at the dead. ;-)
equivalents. It would also be nice if everyone just used Macs!
Well, that's my solution to a lot of problems. LOL
Larry
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