04-12-2010, 08:01 PM
Article Accelerator wrote:
[quote=Tulrin]
Wow, been drinking some Koolaid? Do you drones just repeat whatever Steve Jobs says word for word without a shred of independent thought? How exactly does a developer using cross-compilers harm a platform?
Wow--by watering it down at the user-facing level to lowest-common-denominator features, performance, and interface.
I would have thought that would be obvious but, apparently, not so...
I should know better than to argue with a fanboi. Again you are just repeating practically word for word what Steve Jobs says... but here goes:
Like iTunes on Windows? Or QuickTime on any other platform than Mac? Seems Steve is a hypocrite... but that is hardly news.
If an application does not fill a need users would not use it. Simple as that. If an application fills a need then it enhances a platform and does not detract from it.
That being said, there are quite a few applications out there that are painful to use (QuickTime definitely falls in that category) however there are others that are not, i.e. Eclipse, Firefox.