On Feb 15, 2006, at 1:47 PM, Lynn Fredricks wrote:
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 needs products that work with and use their hardware.
The more productive Xcode developers are, the more products
support the Mac, the more Macs Apple can sell. It's the same
thing with any operating system.
The software is what people want to use -- few of us care
about the hardware other than the quality of support.
Scott, I think you are missing my point - Apple can now set your
mimimum
system requirements for you, by virtue of being the only way to access
the
newest system features.
They always have been becuase they control the OS.
Want Spotlight ; use Tiger.
Etc.
But other language tool providers may or may not be able to incorporate
support for those features into their tools.
When I look at many Apple software products (not the free or cheap
ones, but
the Pro ones), they have many comparable features to products from
other
companies, such as Adobe - except they seem to require a more powerful
processor or system configuration. It's a generalization I know but
when I
see comparable features I wonder why some of those apps, given enough
ram,
shouldn't work on a G3 or G4 with a very lowly graphics card - esp with
there are equivalents on the market that don't have such steep
requirements.
The conclusion I come to is that there is a plan to obsolete your
hardware.
REAL is a co-conspirator then ?
RB 5.5.5 runs dandy on my iBook G4 933.
RB 2005 and 2006 are significantly slower on the exact same system.
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