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The first Mac I actually owned was an SE. Since then I've owned five more Macs. I bought top-of-the-line Macs when people were telling me that Apple was about t
by cosmo7 18y ago
The first Mac I actually owned was an SE. Since then I've owned five more Macs. I bought top-of-the-line Macs when people were telling me that Apple was about to go out of business. I developed a lot of software for the Mac.
I'm all about developing for .NET now; Apple is toxic to developers.
- anthonyrubin 18y agoCare to elaborate?
- cosmo7 18y agoWhere to begin? * the almost total lack of development of Interface Builder * ouch Java * iPhone application approval yumminess * Hi Konfabulator! * Hi Watson!
- anthonyrubin 18y agoAnd you believe the answer is MS? http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-01-2001/jw-0124-iw-mssuncourt.html http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-01-2001/jw-0124-iw-mss... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stac_Electronics#Microsoft_lawsuit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stac_Electronics#Microsoft_laws... There are countless other examples including the original versions of JScript and the burden that is IE6. This is not meant to be a defense of Apple. I was simply interested in why you believed that MS is somehow less "toxic" than Apple.
- cosmo7 18y agoI'm sorry to disagree with you, but despite all of the emotional baggage that surrounds platform choice, I do think Microsoft is kinder to developers. I remember the Stac case, but it was 18-odd years ago. It's more relevant to me now that, for instance, it is effectively illegal to write a book concerning developing for the iPhone. After all, you'd never see Steve Jobs running up and down a stage shouting "developers developers developers" like a monkey on crystal meth, would you.
- catch23 18y agoMicrosoft is friendlier to developers, but the development environment in windows is not so friendly. The one major reason that I own a MacBook is due to the BSD development environment, I'd have to run vmware or colinux on a windows machine to get the equivalent feel. And no, cygwin just doesn't cut it.
- cosmo7 18y agoUnix is better than Windows because doing Unix development is easier on Unix than on Windows? I like OS X, but this is not a very well-constructed argument.
- catch23 18y agoWell I like to use certain command line tools for finding stuff or moving files around, which tend to happen more often as a developer. I've gotten pretty good at scripting with the new powershell in windows, but still somewhat annoying compared to what is available in most unix environments.
- gaius 18y agoApple has gotten a lot better since the days they pulled crap like abandoning APIs as soon as anyone started developing on them. Remember OpenDoc? And if you think IB is stagnant, remember MPW?
- cosmo7 18y agoAh, MPW. An environment that even made CodeWarrior look good.