4 ms·
The App Store team simply knew what the questions were going to be like and were unwilling to face them. I haven't been following WWDC very closely, did Apple
by paulgb 17y ago
The App Store team simply knew what the questions were going to be like and were unwilling to face them.
I haven't been following WWDC very closely, did Apple do something major to piss off developers? Or is Marco referring to general App Store issues?
- loginx 17y agoI'll never understand why you have to own a mac in order to develop iPhone apps, then shell out another $99 just to use the SDK. This means that after purchasing their already expensive phone, I need to shell out close to $1,000 just for the privilege of writing apps. I'm in the market for a new phone right now, and I was really strongly considering an iPhone until I realized that those were the restrictions for writing apps. I'm currently thinking of getting an Android phone, but in Canada, the HTC-rebranded android phones have been heavily modified by HTC... what could possibly go wrong!!
- bonaldi 17y agoI'll never understand why you have to own a mac in order to develop iPhone apps It's not difficult to understand: the iPhone is based on a version of OS X, so when Apple came to write the developer tools, they extended the OS X developer tools. These, unsurprisingly, are OS X native. You may not agree with it, but it's not incomprehensible.
- loginx 17y agoAndroid (linux-based): Linux, Mac & Windows free SDK Palm WebOS (linux-based): Mojo seems to be Linux, Mac & Windows Blackberry: MDS is an Eclipse plugin, so Linux, Mac & Windows Apple and Microsoft are the only ones to lock you onto one platform. Despite all the marketing dollars invested in showing how different Apple and Microsoft are, I see them apply the exact same strategies for the same purposes every single time they get the chance.