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Yes, I am unable to use future information that I don't possess to form an opinion today. >Apple has done things like this in the past, and people screamed abo

by ksk 9y ago

Yes, I am unable to use future information that I don't possess to form an opinion today. >Apple has done things like this in the past, and people screamed about screwing over compiler publishers and so on, and then suddenly the Mac ran on Intel processors and everything they'd been doing clicked into place. What "things like this". Can you be specific? Are you simply saying "People doubted Apple, and then those people were wrong". How about "People doubted Apple, and then they turned out to be right". Or just because Apple makes money, it automatically means they have never screwed over anyone? >I don't know exactly what the reason here is, but I've been a user of Apple products for long enough to believe there probably is one, and that we'll know it at some point. Oh there is always a reason. I've been a user of Apple's products for long enough to believe that the reason usually involves taking cash out of my pocket and putting it into Apple's pocket. I see no reason for me as a customer to empathize with the financial situation of a fabulously wealthy corporate entity.

pwinnski 9y ago
I was thinking specifically of changes they made prior to switching from Power chips to Intel chips. They introduced a series of more onerous requirements for developers that made it harder and harder for developers using the leading third-party IDE/compiler from MetroWerks, and the criticism and complaints sounded eerily similar. Then they announced the switch to Intel processors, and it retroactively became clear how much an already-insanely-difficult transition would have been even more difficult if they had continued to support developers not using Xcode. It sucked for developers having to switch, and it sucked even more for MetroWerks, obviously, but in retrospect, it's hard to see it going down any other way. Apple screws stuff up on a small and medium scale on a regular basis. Monthly, it seems like, and sometimes even more often. But they don't tend to screw up on the big stuff. People disagree with their focus, and that's fine. But I've been following them since the 1980s, and I've come to trust that they'll make good on the big stuff even while they screw up on the small things right and left. Your mileage may vary.

by ksk 9y ago

pwinnski 9y ago

I was thinking specifically of changes they made prior to switching from Power chips to Intel chips. They introduced a series of more onerous requirements for developers that made it harder and harder for developers using the leading third-party IDE/compiler from MetroWerks, and the criticism and complaints sounded eerily similar. Then they announced the switch to Intel processors, and it retroactively became clear how much an already-insanely-difficult transition would have been even more difficult if they had continued to support developers not using Xcode. It sucked for developers having to switch, and it sucked even more for MetroWerks, obviously, but in retrospect, it's hard to see it going down any other way. Apple screws stuff up on a small and medium scale on a regular basis. Monthly, it seems like, and sometimes even more often. But they don't tend to screw up on the big stuff. People disagree with their focus, and that's fine. But I've been following them since the 1980s, and I've come to trust that they'll make good on the big stuff even while they screw up on the small things right and left. Your mileage may vary.