On 11 April 2010 17:42, Igor Stasenko <siguctua@gmail.com> wrote:
On 11 April 2010 17:29, Schwab,Wilhelm K <bschwab@anest.ufl.edu> wrote:
Interesting theory. Â The question is are they trying to force developers to buy Macs, or are they simply trying to avoid the hassles of targeting Windows? Â 10+ years to present day is an interesting time frame. Â OLE was pretty much out of the way (supported but not pressed and certainly not dominating the work flow of the masses), COM was still the answer to everything, at least until the OCX/ActiveX silliness got into full swing, and then they started threatening to do away with native code (.Net, presentation framework, end of the portable executable format, etc.).
If I could avoid all of that *and* sell some of my high-priced hardware at the same time, I might do the same thing that Apple is doing.
But what makes you think, that your approach to software development is any better than any other one? Or, that having C, C++, Object-C and JavaScript is all what today's developper needs?
You could have a brilliant hardware with tons of cool functionality. But without good software this is just a piece of useless metal and plastic. And we know, that all good things is brought to life in open and free, creative environments, not in sealed and secured , paranoic places. People won't buy an 'approved' C++ crap, if they will have a choice to use something which is way better. And they are really don't care, what language is used to implement software. P.S. i miss the S letter in 'Apple's name, so , i will put a $ instead :)
Bill
-- Best regards, Igor Stasenko AKA sig.