On 2/16/10 10:28 , Casper Bang wrote:
(2) Several points brought up in this thread are actually false, which is a bit annoying. The Apple SDK and tools are free, and are pretty much state-of-the-art
I don't know, because I've never got one. So I'm learning from the thread on this point. But I'd say that to use any Apple SDK as a minimum I have to buy a Mac OS X - oops, which will force me to buy an Apple computer. This doesn't sound as the same for other SDK, that as a mininum run on Windows (that doesn't impose me to buy a specific hardware) and in many case run on every major o.s.
PS I've been able to catch up with this thread only now, and there was a counter-argument to a point of mine, that is Linux comes with FireFox preinstalled. But:
1) Linux and Linux distros are not the same company/entity that makes Firefox 2) There isn't a single Linux, but many Linux distros that eventually could choose to pre-install a different Firefox. I actually don't know if any does now, or did in the past. 3) Other browsers are available in the default software installation application. 4) I don't know whether it's the same with Windows 7 (not played with it at this level yet), but in the past - at the time of the UE fine - you needed in any case IExplorer to update your Windows installation (and possibly to validate the "genuine copy" stuff?).
So, Firefox defaulting on Linux sounds to me very different than the same company (Microsoft) providing both the browser and the operating system. And in any case, as it has been pointed out, it was just a "diminishing point" of Apple *preventing* other browsers from existing.
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