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Apple and Independent Developers
Corleone writes "We've seen a realization recently that Microsoft isn't standing still with Longhorn, and countering Longhorn has been pushed to the forefront. That is why I found the concept of Apple being the larger danger in Rhapsody in Yellow so ironic. The author skirts the scary question: would Apple porting their frameworks to Linux give them undue influence over the direction of the free operating system movement? This is after recent reports saying missing programs are the biggest thing holding Linux back on the desktop. Macromedia has interest in their tools on Linux, surely many others are too. This would seem to allow thousands of companies a simple path to the Linux market but with Apple as the gateway. If not Apple, what of Microsoft porting their engine?"
This eventually meandered (alcohol was involved) into a much larger topic:
What the hell is going on with independent development & the Mac?
ONLY geeks talk about Macs and technology when they are drunk!
python -c "x='python -c %sx=%s; print x%%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))%s'; print x%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))"
"Apple putting their framework on Linux would be akin to putting a Ferrari body around a Lada engine."
You appear to forget that even Lamborghini make tractors.
. . . I have the ease of use of Windows. .
Cough! (puts down his whiskey)
Pardner, Them's fightin' words in these parts.
My
I should start a toilet paper company and pay Ferrari to allow me to put their name on the TP.
"Wipe better, take curves faster, and have a smoother finish than with any of the other leading brands. "
Since Ferrari already has their name on a Laptop, why not?
Last time I read a drunken rant by a blogger EVAR!!!!
.NET.
I read and read and read...
but still don't quite get it all.
I think he's whinging about the lack of developer exodus from the CoCoa/Objective C camp on over to wintell
Well durrr... I think it comes down to wanting to fill your pocket with something more than lint.
Not intending to troll, and I'm typing this on one of my 2 dell inspirons, it's just that not many a 3rd party have gotten rich developing for Microsoft platforms. And when people do have a successfull product, Microsoft has tended to come up with their own version in house that kills the 3rd party app. On occasion, Microsoft has been known to be nice and just acquire said tech, but lately, they've taken no prisoners. Most the big Microsoft apps these days are apps that used to be made by third parties. Most are rather raw at this time such as Sound Recorder (Acid Wannabe) while Movie Maker has slaughtered the art of sock puppets.
When looking at Microsoft's treatment of 3rd party apps and developers, their monolithic approach and the fact that in the last 5 years they've gone through a MAJOR OS change, NT to XP, and have now migrated their processor architecture to a reverse engineered AMD64 via Intel, I'd expect most people to be keenly interested but taking a wait and see tact with Longhorn.
Surely, Windows XP is beautiful a OS, if you have a gun pointed to your head, and Microsoft puts out sexy dancing monkey management types, but with ~95% marketshare, not many are exactly looking at Windows as *the* secure platform to be developing for when it comes to reaching the technically inclined and raping small animals.
Hopefully the Longhorn will catch it's horn on a tree when they release the deathstar to 90miles and the dark side of the force boosts to both 2.5M midi-chlorians and 3.0M midi-chlorians over the course of the summer. Personally, I've been waiting for that boost myself and plan on flying around like superman as soon as possible.
But when it comes to the Knights of the Old Republic, party development for Jedi are hinging on holding my breath waiting for a glut of new acme flying boots.
This post was submitted because the parent was entertaining. as entertaining as eating rocks smeared with feces.
enjoy.
"Windows PCs are only cheaper than Macs if your time has no value".
Great, the two minute between postings regardless of how many postings you've made recently thing has kicked in so let's find a joke to cut and paste. Please ignore the below if you're reading this because it's labelled "Informative" or "Insightful", but carry on if you're trying to find out what's "+5 Funny" about Quicktime and big-endian issues.
A gynecologist became fed up with malpractice insurance and overwork. Hoping to try another career where skillful hands would be beneficial, he decided to change careers and become a mechanic. He went to a local technical college, signed up for evening classes, attended diligently, and learned all he could. When the time for the practical exam approached, the gynecologist prepared carefully for weeks and completed the exam with tremendous skill. When the results came back, he was surprised to find that he had obtained a score of 150%. Fearing an error, he called the instructor, saying "I don't want to appear ungrateful for such an outstanding result, but I wondered if there is an error which needs adjusting."
The instructor said, "During the exam, you took the engine apart perfectly, which was worth 50% of the total mark. You put the engine back together again perfectly, which is also worth 50% of the mark." The instructor went on to say, " I gave you an extra 50% because you did all of it through the muffler."
(Interestingly this joke actually did have something to do with endian issues, and I punched it up at random. Hmmm.)
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
With OS-X being basically BSD, Their wouldn't be much work to do
Every time a Slashdotter posts this, God kills a kitten.
I write in my journal
this should be windows like, checkboxes, textboxes, menu items... lickable guiness
I'm all for it. But... how do you get the beer to come out of the screen? Some kind of custom video driver?
I write in my journal
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