Well said. A bottom-to-top platform developed by one company is likely to be well integrated. Certainly a huge benefit to anyone trying to develop in said platform.
Consider.Net vs Java : Java = spend 90% of your time trying to figure out which piece is the best piece in a series of pieces that make up your project. Very hard to do. Oh, then there's the incompatibilities between what you want to use and what's supported by the other 20 dependencies you require.
I'm a bleeding heart open-source evangelist, but though much a grin, platform conformity fosters the most rapid of growth.
I'm ecstatic that Yahoo wants to offer unencumbered tunes. But $2.00 / song? That's more than I pay for a 16-bit PCM CD. Besides, they don't have to package, distribute (old-skool distribute, that is) or keep brick-and-mortars. I might get interested/serious if it were $2 / album...
I've already spent $500 this year with allofmp3. I'm not opposed to spending, I'm just not going to play sucker to suckers.
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Seems like Windows 8 is Microsoft's "New Coke Formula"? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Coke
Thanks.
Well said. A bottom-to-top platform developed by one company is likely to be well integrated. Certainly a huge benefit to anyone trying to develop in said platform. Consider .Net vs Java : Java = spend 90% of your time trying to figure out which piece is the best piece in a series of pieces that make up your project. Very hard to do. Oh, then there's the incompatibilities between what you want to use and what's supported by the other 20 dependencies you require.
I'm a bleeding heart open-source evangelist, but though much a grin, platform conformity fosters the most rapid of growth.
Still no file preview in the file open dialog I suppose?
I'm ecstatic that Yahoo wants to offer unencumbered tunes. But $2.00 / song? That's more than I pay for a 16-bit PCM CD. Besides, they don't have to package, distribute (old-skool distribute, that is) or keep brick-and-mortars. I might get interested/serious if it were $2 / album ...
I've already spent $500 this year with allofmp3. I'm not opposed to spending, I'm just not going to play sucker to suckers.