Actually that description of "the long tail" is pretty bad. The long
tail is not just a bunch of hobbyists not making any money. Nor is it
a bunch of easily dismissed vertical apps. My point is that there are
many MwRb products that are making good enough money or have big
enough budgets to satisfy just about anyone on this list. It doesn't
take a Photoshop to do that. There are thousands and thousands of
products that make people good enough money that you've never heard
of, but are just as indispensable to end-users as Photoshop or Word.
REALbasic does not preclude anyone who is capable of writing a
"professional" app (however you want to define it) from doing so.
Like all tools, it has strengths and weaknesses and rough edges, and
the successful developer knows how to work with them and work the
process to get his application written.
-Brad
On Feb 14, 2006, at 12:08 AM, Andy Dent wrote:
I found the "long tail" stuff interesting and there's a
particularly good piece at < http://blog.talbott.ws/pages/
the_railroad_then_and_now.html> however I think this is irrelevant
to RB.
RB is NOT (yet?) a tool for the average person to make software with.
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