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Enjoy being Apple serfs, developers! The guys over at Titanium [1] can give you genuflecting lessons if you need. Apple has definitely crossed-over to the dar

by Andrey 17y ago

Enjoy being Apple serfs, developers! The guys over at Titanium [1] can give you genuflecting lessons if you need. Apple has definitely crossed-over to the dark side. After 26 years of being a fanboy, they've finally exceeded what I can stomach. [1] http://developer.appcelerator.com/blog/2010/04/apple-4-0-and-titanium.html http://developer.appcelerator.com/blog/2010/04/apple-4-0-and... [2] http://ipadmakesmesad.blogspot.com http://ipadmakesmesad.blogspot.com

roc 17y ago
You're beholden to whatever platform you develop on. That's simply the way it always is. The web isn't appropriate for the apps I want to write yet, so I can't develop on a perfectly open platform and expect to find customers. And I can't reasonably create my own platform and create the software I want to create. So I have to pick a platform that can reasonably support the apps I want to write and that gives me a reasonable chance to make a living at it. I'm going to be somebody's sharecropper. When I have more resources, I can consider supporting multiple platforms to mitigate my risk. But until then, pointing out that we develop at the pleasure of the platform holder is redundant and the differences between more- and less-restrictive platforms is splitting hairs.