On Feb 15, 2006, at 6:37 PM, Lynn Fredricks wrote:
I think this is recent history, ie post CodeWarrior. Certainly they
control
the OS. But if the most popular dev tool comes from a third party,
they are
in a position where they have to make features accessible to a broader
audience.
CodeWarrior saved Apple's bacon in many respects.
But, since they were a third party they were not always right up to
date with support in their tools for the latest and greatest from Apple
either.
The OS vendor is really about the only one that will be up to date with
their tools regardless of whether the most popular tool is from someone
else or not.
Apple's business is not to support or prop up someone else; it's
hardware and software that they make and sell.
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.
RB 2005/2006 were built in REALbasic -- 5.5 was not. I think that
explains it.
5.5 was a C/C++ app (which gets this back to why C/C++ apps feel faster
than RB apps)
2005/2006 are RB apps
You're sure Apple isn't paying REAL some kind of royalty to help move
the hardware base up ?
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