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I think DHH shares your understanding of Apple's motives (although he stated it less precisely), but argues that -- if there is a big benefit to using Apple's t
by chwahoo 16y ago
I think DHH shares your understanding of Apple's motives (although he stated it less precisely), but argues that -- if there is a big benefit to using Apple's tools -- someone will do that and create the better app. Why stop folks from creating a mediocre app that happens to be written in a cross-platform way? There are lots of apps that are mediocre and/or slow to incorporate new features anyway.
Are you suggesting that Firefox and Eclipse are lacking in some way because they are built for multiple platforms and would be much better if they were written for a single platform to take advantage of the latest windows or mac os features? I don't share that view. In fact, I'd go as far as to say that I think the existence of apps like Firefox and Eclipse are a strong argument against Apple's policy (at least from the perspective of end-users).
- chwahoo 16y agoSorry protomyth - yours is not the message I was replying to. I'm not sure what happened there!?!
- tvon 16y agoSorry, I decided my comment wasn't especially useful and deleted it, but I didn't see it had a response. For the record, it was: ========= > I mean, I read the supposed reasons for why this would happen, oh, if we allowed cross-platformed tools then only shitty applications will be made, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. That is completely incorrect. Jobs said that a cross platform app is worse at integrating with the system than native apps and slower to gain the benefits of OS updates (if they ever do). I'd like to see someone demonstrate this to be untrue, but looking at Firefox and Eclipse it seems to be dead-on accurate. =========
- toddheasley 16y ago"Are you suggesting that Firefox and Eclipse are lacking in some way because they are built for multiple platforms and would be much better if they were written for a single platform..." Firefox and Eclipse would be worlds better if they were written for a single platform. I'd go so far as to suggest that the only gain in writing cross-platform software is that it runs on more than one platform. Everything else suffers -- or at least is limited to a common denominator. "Common" being the operative word.