Lynn:
A number of applications written in RB are on the shelves at Apple
Stores. I think MacBurn, for example, is actually an RB app. I forget
the publisher, but there are five or six similarly designed boxes on the
shelf. I am willing to bet the exposure in an Apple Store, on the Apple
Site, and in the Apple-CompUSA areas is pretty important to this developer.
If I had a mainstream application based on RB, it would concern me. You
can't beat the exposure of a store shelf, even today. I might order
books online, but I still look in a bookstore and browse. I do the same
when I find an Apple Store.
Another important example: educators still buy from the online Apple
store. Schools often have portals with Apple, just for this purpose. If
my educational software (clearly a niche) is not listed, but a competing
Obj-C app is listed, then I am at a very real disadvantage. Teachers buy
from where the purchase orders work... hence CSU instructors buy from
the Apple site.
The "complaint" thread represents such concerns on the part of
developers. Many of us want as much "pure" OS X in our lives as
possible. Right now, there are limitations to RB in this regard -- but
we have been told to expect some exciting changes.
The changes, apparently, can come none to soon.
- Scott
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