Nice series of non-sequitur apple bashing there. None of that is even relevant. Apple relatively recently replaced their entire base *LANGUAGE* and base library for development (from carbon to cocoa) and snow leopard included a big stack of new features for Objective C, such as garbage collection.
In the mean time, windows has abandoned the .NET platform concept. In Vista and Windows 7, the go-to language for making Windows 7 apps is still C++. So, whatever you're talking about - I can't make heads or tails of it. As far as developer satisfaction goes - given that mac OS X is the dominant platform amongst new developers, calling OS X "abandonware" is still completely ridiculous hyperbole. On Jun 8, 1:26 pm, Casper Bang <casper.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jun 8, 11:03 am, Reinier Zwitserloot <reini...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On the other hand, apple just released a brand new OS X. Back when > > microsoft hadn't released a new windows for about a *decade*, people > > STILL weren't calling windows abandonware, but apple gives it some > > slack for about 10 months year and this happens. Nuts. > > Ah but you forget to factor in developer experiences and opinions; an > influence vector largely ignored by Apple and probably contributing > factor to Android's success. > > I hear more and more negativity from the Apple world when it comes to > developer satisfaction and MonoTouch for the iPhone is a good example > of a 3'rd part trying to improve this seemingly neglected aspect. Yes > Microsoft had their time and is now largely playing catch up, but the > same force keeping Java alive is also keeping Windows alive; developer > inertia. Small difference of course in that Microsoft are actually > able to innovate for their developers and do not take 10+ years to add > a language feature (enum, method-handle, string-in-switch, ARM blocks > etc.). > > > As usual trying to inject some sanity into overly dramatic discussions. > > Yeah good lord, what should we do without you! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
