Being a developer who makes his living at it (like many of us do), I develop on platforms that make me the most money, period. To date, thats Windows. While there is opportunity to make money on mobile devices, I think that opportunity for me is more of a n-tiered solution where the mobile device is solely a UI to the server(s) solution. I absolutely hate almost all of Microsoft's architecture, it smacks of being designed by a room full of monkeys (sri if I slandered any monkeys out there) but its so overladen with layers of junk just to get something done.
Apple's archiectural designs are so elegant and clean they just invite you to use them. But, I would rather have my toenails trimmed with a machete by a room full of Microsoft architects than to code in Objective C. Its not I cannot do it (as I have), its that I don't like it. When the iPhone craze hit 2 years ago, my sincerest hope was that it would foster other native-appearing alternatives to ObjC since the developers were having to use Macs for iPhone development and we could get some non-objC koolaid. Almost bought a commercial license of QT even though I hate C++ almost as much as ObjC, In fact, I put my money on mono which allowed me to use my windows skills everywhere. But the sad fact is the establishment of cross-platform frameworks would bring some many new applications to OS X that it would ignite that platform. But by making the iphone/ipad platform closed to anyone but objC coders, he has starved off this flood of OS X innovation. He has chosen what my former CEO called "the precisely irrelevant" solution, looking to have 100% of the latest features present in any application instead of "the meaningfully approximate" of 85% and many more entries on their platform. By staying "pure", he will experience what happens with an exclusionary policy. Its language apartheid. Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software www.abrohamnealsoftware.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
