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> these cross-compiler vendors never support Apple as a first class citizen. Apps should be judged on their own merits, not based on the original language they
by chime 17y ago
> these cross-compiler vendors never support Apple as a first class citizen.
Apps should be judged on their own merits, not based on the original language they were coded in.
- tptacek 17y agoThat logic terminates in a place that disallows any company from making any business decision ever that might negatively impact any class of developer.
- enjo 17y agoI don't get this. I'm assuming most of the folks here are in development in one form or another, and very few of them work for Apple. Therefore, it is in everyone's collective best interest to have as many free and open platforms as possible. What Apple is doing is attempting to leverage their current success into future success by cutting off an avenue for cross platform authoring. This isn't about users. It's not about quality. It's about savvy developers (that's us) looking for ways to support multiple mobile platforms as painlessly (and profitably) as possible. That's not in Apple's best interest, but it sure as hell is in mine. This isn't a legal question (yet), but as a developer this pisses me off. It should piss you off too.
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- tptacek 17y agoIt doesn't piss me off, because I think it has more to do with the quality of the platform, and I don't think Apple owes anyone a cross-platform dev environment.
- statictype 17y agoLet's say you hired 2 developers from Albania. Let's say it didn't pan out. Would you change your interview process to ban all developers from Albania? Or would you change your interview process to weed out low-quality candidates? Forget about the legal and moral issues. Which argument makes more sense?