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Originally Posted by FanIn80
I tend to agree with this. There are also some other concerns like Apple doesn't want a scenario where new features in new versions of iPhone OS are stuck waiting for some 3rd-party IDE toolkit to get updated before people get to use them.
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That wouldn't be Apple's problem though and they wouldn't be blamed for it, that would be up to the 3rd party toolkit. To disallow any 3rd party toolkit for this reason is pretty much unprecedented as far as I can think.
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Originally Posted by FanIn80
There's really not much difference between this and what Microsoft does with some of its hardware certification stuff, and also with their whole .Net thing.
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Except that there's no similarities. You can use Java to write .NET code, you can write it in Ada, Lisp, Ruby, Python, Smalltalk, Fortran, whatever you want. You can implement .NET on a completely different platform without a single piece of Microsoft stuff (Mono).
No this is completely political. If I have a compiler which compiles the Objective C code down to something, and I have another compiler that just happens to take source code in something else but compiles down to the exact same thing, then there is no reason to disallow the other thing.
Well there are reasons, but they're all irrational bordering on Kleenex boxes on my shoes territory.
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Originally Posted by FanIn80
One of these days, Adobe will figure out that if they want to capitalize on Apple's work, they're going to have to buy at least one Apple computer to develop their Mac apps on. Sorry Adobe. I know you think the world should just bend over and install your PDF viewer with 17 processes that run in the background, but if you don't evolve than you lose.
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It wasn't that long ago that Mac users trumpeted how much better Photoshop ran on a mac vs. a PC so this is spurious. The PDF viewer being a piece of crap on the mac has nothing to do with Adobe not buying a mac to develop on and everything to do with the PDF viewer (and every other piece of Adobe code) increasingly becoming a bloated piece of crap. It's crap on the PC too, I don't use it.