The price of OS/2 tools was just an example by which development was made unappealing to small developers. The reasons cited about OSX were the restrictions on virtualization and the changing API's (IIRC) between major releases. In terms of support and testing cross-platform apps, these two factors play off each other. The LAS guys said that it was easier to do quality cross platform apps on Windows than the Mac. When Linux guys say something good about MS... (The legal restrictions on virtualization also really impacts people trying to do multi-platform support)
My point was also that rather than a sign of loss of focus on computers, the difficulty of cross-development results from the strategy of trying to writing proprietary apps that will sell machines. Obviously, dual booting on Intel macs is the tactic for supporting switching windows users, but in the long run cross-platform apps should be the most attractive way to convenience switching. mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Aren't apple tools all free and MS charges for them? Mike On 4/16/07, Paul Meyer wrote: > > I don't really care what the future of Apple is but the question of how > closed an OS the Mac has might concern friends of Apple. It seems to > me that one of the reason OS/2 died was that IBM priced the development > tools so high there was no chance of (independent) developers writing for > it (and I thought it > was a great OS, bring Unix-like power to the desktop years before OSX and > Linux) > > Apple resurgence has been credited (to some-extent, the non-iPod part) to > its emphasis on software, so perhaps discouraging portability works to > their > favor. Does it make sense in the long run though? > > > ************************************************************************ > * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== > * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== > * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name > * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST > * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L > * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress > * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ************************************************************************ > * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml > * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived > ************************************************************************ > ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
