> For many various and understandable reasons, RB will always > be behind the curve from Xcode. Apple develops it, and Apple > can put the new features into it the same day they are > needed. RS will always need to be playing catch-up to keep RB > "modern". Fact of life, and serious disadvantage.
I have a growing fear of xCode - about its serious disadvantage for developers from a business perspective. CodeWarrior was from a third party, and it behooved the third party to be as backwards compatible as possible with older hardware configurations -- why? It's what customers wanted, so they could continue to ship apps that work with the old hardware out there. Metrowerks didn't sell the boxes to run the software, so what did they care? Apple has a very clear objective. It isnt to spread love of the Mac. It is to make money. To make money, they have to sell as many new boxes as they can. If software remains generally backwards compatible, then often a few upgraded parts will add a year or few to the life of the use of your computer. Now here's xCode, which is a very nice environment. They don't make money off of it directly. So how is it a profit center? By enhancing the sales of other products Apple makes. Apple has access to its own technology before anyone else does (much like MS has access to Windows features to benefit their Office sales - or that MS can modify Windows to satisfy the Office group), allowing it a certain out-of-the-gate benefit for its own software titles it does charge for. But that isnt nearly the problem that is created by being able to control your minimum system requirements if you want to support new features, or even old features if they decide to do so. There's very little money for Apple to make off of supporting an old G3 iMac, unless it is to say "sorry, wont run -- by a new iMac!" No company (or individual) likes to be at the mercy of another. Apple did experience that when they turned to the PPC processor and Metrowerks saved their bacon. What concerns me is that in taking care of this, as a business owner I no longer have control over a very important aspect of products I sell. Best regards, Lynn Fredricks President Paradigma Software, Inc Joining Worlds of Information Deploy True Client-Server Database Solutions Royalty Free with Valentina Developer Network http://www.paradigmasoft.com _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
