Re: Apple's Tools Strategy
Re: Apple's Tools Strategy
- Subject: Re: Apple's Tools Strategy
- From: Josh Osborne <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 05:39:36 -0700
I haven't been closely paying attention to this thread, but I thought
I'd put in my 2 cents. I started Objective-C and Cocoa programming
when the Mac Mini fist came out and I think Xcode is great. I
haven't had any problems at all learning it or using it. There are a
number of really good books on just Xcode alone. I wouldn't use any
other IDE. I think Apple has done a really great job with it.
Thanks,
Josh Osborne - email@hidden
On Oct 29, 2006, at 4:05 AM, Turtle Creek Software wrote:
Call me unrealistic or even a snob, but the nature of the work we do
is such that anyone doing it should have above average analytical
skills and be able to express his thoughts. Anyone using Xcode should
be able to offer more than "It needs to be better," especially if
he's used something he thinks *is* better, as you apparently have.
I think the radar system works extremely well, the times I have used
it. However, in this case, I haven't spent enough time with XCode to
be able to describe the problems well enough for the radar system.
Hence the vague complaints.
But maybe it's time to reframe the issue. I think the larger problem
is that the Apple tool situation changed dramatically last year, and
that may require a matching change in Apple's role.
For a while, Think Pascal/C was the development platform of choice for
many developers, then CodeWarrior took over.
However, now there is no alternative development platform created by
some company that HAS to make the product user-friendly, or lose
money.
And I guess you're right, with a free competitor, there is little
chance a competing/better product will ever appear again.
Does Apple really WANT to be the monopoly provider? If so, then I
think it had better find a way to make XCode more 'elegant', or risk
losing the most creative new developers (and some old ones). That
probably means listening more to vague complaints, and addng some of
the GUI design elegance that appears in other Apple products. Or get
that elegance from a retired product GUI that already had it.
If not, then it's time to do something to foster competition, and
quickly.
Dennis Kolva
Turtle Creek Software
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