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> We lament that Apple seems to hate its developers. The joke back then (well over fifteen years ago, pre-iPhone) was that Apple is very user friendly, but tha
by jfim 6y ago
> We lament that Apple seems to hate its developers.
The joke back then (well over fifteen years ago, pre-iPhone) was that Apple is very user friendly, but that developers aren't users.
It's interesting to see that that hasn't changed since then though, you'd think that with all the iPhone money they would've invested a bit of it in developer documentation.
Out of curiosity, how's XCode these days? Back then it was a rather scrappy team, but it still beat Metrowerks' CodeWarrior.
- mariodiana 6y agoWell, I like Xcode. But Apple keeps making changes with every version, and some of those changes seem to be for no good reason. You get a kind of muscle memory after a while, from using your IDE. When a button is moved or removed, or a menu is changed, it adds friction to your day. Also, I got bit with this thing they did for the new ARM chips in the Macs. Our script to build a fat binary (device and simulator) for a in-house framework broke, and we couldn't add the simulator anymore. That took a lot of tracking down to fix. It's constant aggravation like that that wears on a person. Last year, we had the 3rd-party mapping software we use break, because -- as best as I can tell -- Apple changed the implementation for drawing. That was a pain in the ass to track down, too. I wasn't kidding when I wrote that I was a fanboy. But the other day I was thinking of Steve Ballmer, years ago, running around on stage like a sweaty lunatic -- "Developers, developers, developers!" I mocked him then. Now I'm sorry I did.