04-12-2010, 09:23 PM
Tulrin wrote:
[quote=Article Accelerator]
[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.
Are you surprised to find a fanboi or fangurrrl on a site called MacResource Forum? Are you surprised that a Mac user would prefer software that makes the most of his or her chosen platform?
Like iTunes on Windows? Or QuickTime on any other platform than Mac? Seems Steve is a hypocrite... but that is hardly news.
Hypocritical? I don't think so. Users of other platforms are free to choose devices that don't require iTunes for sync/update. On the Mac, at least, some users are not free to choose alternate software to fulfill their needs. See below.
If an application does not fill a need users would not use it. Simple as that.
Not quite--it's not "simple" at all.
Apple has already been down this road and suffered the consequences of having its Mac competitive advantages erased by ported or cross-compiled lowest-common-denominator applications. Users may still use those applications because industry practices and standards demand they do so (e.g. Photoshop, InDesign) but they feel the pain of the non-optimal performance and foreign interface nonetheless.
Apple is not going to make the same mistake and get similarly boxed in and jerked around with its new touch platform. Capisce?