On Feb 16, 2006, at 11:10 AM, Lynn Fredricks wrote:
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.
Possibly, but we can never know exactly how that relationship was
structured
- they may not have been able to, may not have wanted to. Or may not
have
had access to information in a timely way.
Perhaps.
It is hard to know
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.
Not if they are sharing information and controling their releases to
structure it that way.
Again, we don't know what apple will/wont' do and what they are/are not
doing.
However, working with another developer suggests that APple makes
changes they do not prerelease to developers
Apple's business is not to support or prop up someone else;
it's hardware and software that they make and sell.
That's a generalization of a very complex business environment.
It is.
With that approach then, they should simply kill all third party
development except
where third party involvement will stem any migration to other
platforms or
will increase their own touch costs. That means the majority of
developers
for the Mac should just give up, unless their exit strategy is to sell
themselves to Apple.
That is an over simplification of what I said.
Apple's primary goal is not necessarily to see that developers for
Mac's or OS X do well.
It's to see that THEY do well (at least as a shareholder I hope that is
their goal)
That _may_ include assisting their developers (ie/ dev labs, WWDC, etc)
but the goal is selfishly motivated.
IF their developers do well and can make money Apple will do well.
Apple knows this.
But Apple rarely cares if a developer for OS X comes or goes (except
maybe Adobe, MS and a few other significant players)
When Symantec exited the tool market Apple did not really care as
MetroWerks had supplanted them anyways.
And Apple still had their own tools for free as well.
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