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Apple Developer Profile Changing?
rocketjam writes "According to InternetNews.com, Apple Computer is seeing large numbers of UNIX, Java and Open Source developers moving to its Mac OS X platform. Apple Vice President of Worldwide Developer Relations Ron Okamoto mentions that, in the three years since the introduction of OS X, 'people who have experience in those areas are showing a great interest in our OS. We're seeing a lot of first timers. It's really impressive.' The company said it has recently surpassed the 300,000 member threshold of registered developers. Apparently, the increase in enterprise code writers has prompted Apple to add more sessions focusing on enterprise and IT to its upcoming Worldwide Developers Conference."
What are these people doing?! Linux is free.. and you dont need to buy completely new hardware!
My next purchase is going to be a PowerBook. Why? One word--quality.
It's a level of quality that can't be found in Linux or Windows right now.
Now, if they ported OS X to i386 arch, they'd have 10 fold the developers and 100 fold the customers... but their probably too caught up in ideals to think of that. Face it Apple, i386 won.
Can you prove they're not moving to OS X? Clearly, they must have had a reason for saying ssuch...it was probably due to all the registered developers who are grabbing their Apple Developer Tools. They do keep tabs on this stuff, you know.
With all these OSS/FS/*NIX developers moving over to Mac OS X, you can expect the general usability of Mac OS X applications to start degrading terribly. Those kinds of developers will just start polluting the Apple platform with their user-hostile attitudes about computing, ignoring the carefully-crafted approach to software design for which Apple has always stood.
.conf file with vi over a parallel port, that's your fault for being a n00b, and we have no interest in writing software that's actually well-architected, handles error conditions well, or is easy to install, configure, or use. It's not our job to care about you. If you don't like it, fix it yourself!
Typical OSS/FS/*NIX developer attitude: If you aren't smart enough to hack a
Do you really want that kind of developer writing Mac software? Seriously? I think they should stay in Linux-land; at least they can't make that platform much worse than it already is.
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> The kind of changes taking place at Apple are nothing short of revolutionary... Unix that anyone can use
Umm... There already IS a UNIX that anyone can use. It's called Linux. I think what you mean to say is "a UNIX that any braindead hamster can use." Now THAT'S impressive.