As a small shareware company I have lots of competition. Using RB has given my competition the edge, they have 4-8 months of time where their product is going to be twice the speed of mine on Apple computers. Hopefully the extensive feature set will be enough to persuade existing customers to stay and new customers that my products are still competitive.
So why aren't you complaining to Apple? Apple: * Knew this was coming for years. * Spent those years optimizing their OS and development tools for it. * Let NOBODY in the developer tools space know with sufficient lead time so that they could do the same. * Proceeded to release Intel machines 6 months ahead of schedule, again with NO notice to developers, thereby reducing what little lead time they had promised. If this was Microsoft, people wouldn't be complaining at RS, they would be forming a lawsuit for anticompetitive behavior in the developer tools space (i.e. using advanced knowledge of an OS transition and new OS API's to give ..NET an unfair advantage over 3rd party products). Heck, if Apple had an office suite that threatened MS Office, there's a good chance Microsoft would be doing something legally about all of this right now. I'm sure Adobe is not happy at all about the lead time as Apple is trying to move into their space with Aperture. Gee...guess which product is Intel native first? Think Apple departments didn't talk to one another about that one? I realize it doesn't put your mind at ease. Your competitors still have lead time over you. But this is *Apple's* misstep. Be happy all you have to do is wait. CodeWarrior users lost their entire development platform, something which would not have happened had Apple given them more advanced warning. And I'm sure for some of them moving to Xcode is simply not as easy as Apple would like it to sound. (Could be one of the reasons Office and Photoshop will take so much time to transition.) Xcode users got a quick transition to Intel because Apple took all the time they needed to make sure Xcode was ready, THEN announced the transition to 3rd parties. Not nice, not fair. Again, if this was Microsoft moving to PPC, there would be state govenors calling for an injunction against the PPC version of .NET until the competition could catch up. And a mess of developers would be seeking monetary damages in a class action over the move. The word MONOPOLY would be all over the news. Apple doesn't have to face this because they're smaller and therefore under the radar. Doesn't mean it was fair or right. Daniel L. Taylor Taylor Design Computer Consulting & Software Development [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.taylor-design.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>
