One thing to be considered in all this. Just as VO came out in Tiger,
Apple made a decision to shift to the intel chip and it pulled all its
assorted SW development teams off the jobs they were doing and assigned
them fully to the transition task. The VO team was stripped to help in
this effort and the planned fixes that Apple knew about were put off to
get the transistion done. For the Last year Apple has been in a
dangerous position, some what like changing horses in mid stream. They
needed to apply all their talent to making the change happen rapidly
before the Apple computer market crashed while users waited for the new
intel systems. Now that all the transition has been accomplished, it
would appear to me that they will now settle down to completing the work
needed on VO and possibly making other Apple products accessable. But
Apple lost a good 15 months to make the change. So dont be too
criticle about an 18 month time period to "fix" itunes and other
programs. They are only now really working on the items that they had
to put off. Vickie Weir
Scott Howell wrote:
Ah, at last some intelligent conversation on this topic. I think Joe and
Abdul have exchanged some thoughts here that actually make sense. I
agree with both and would say that yes Apple has done great things,
but the fact is, they must continue and if it means holding their
feet to the fire, then by all means.
Joe being a developer has a good grip on development cycles etc. and
I realize all of this will take time, but I agree that 18 months does
seem a little long considering. I think however, keeping in mind the
priorities of Apple's developers is a must as well. Surely it would
be easy to add accessibility in, but surely it would make more sense
to do so at the outset as opposed to patching it in after the fact.
Of course Itunes has been in development for a good long while now
and at this point I'd think if it were possible, then they aut to get
to it. Of course Itunes is not the only application at all, there's
plenty they could work on.
Of course unless we're sitting with the teams everyday, we aren't
going to know what the future holds, but we can only hope and
encourage. As customers, even a minoirity at that, we do have the
ability to make our desires known. This is the power of words and of
course voting with your purchases doesn't hurt things. grin
Good discussion fellas.
Scott
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