| ??? 04/13/11 19:20 Read: times Msg Score: +1 +1 Good Answer/Helpful |
#181869 - Apple "openness" Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Erik Malund said:
I often wonder if Keil et al would be available for Apple rather than Windows, had Apple not been so protective and run an "open shop". The success of the PC comes from this wonderful thing called competition which was there (was it) a year after IBM introduced the PC. Apple has never allowed it. Erik, that is completely wrong. In terms of desktop application programming, Apple is completely open. In fact, when OS X was released, they decided to give away the XCode development tools (instead of requiring the purchase of CodeWarrior or whatever) and those tools are still free (and very high quality). Microsoft, being a software company, has never been interested in giving away development tools. The free "express" version of VisualStudio is total crippleware. OS X developers can get a lot of access to operating-system sources, too (Darwin is open source, for example), certainly more than Microsoft allows. In terms of hardware interfacing, it seems to me that FireWire, USB, PCIe are all standards, so developers are not constrained by anything Apple-specific. There is a lot of support for driver developers, too. So all of this is a roundabout way of saying: there is absolutely no reason why Keil could not have ported their compiler to OS X had they chosen to do so. This goes for any company developing desktop software. -a |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| Creating iPhone apps? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| added cost of the connectivity | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Web server dongle | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Code space | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| HTML isn't big | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| "only" (sic) 8919 bytes | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| All depends on target etc | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| You could do a lot in 1kByte | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
It isn't the page itself that consumes code space | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Apps | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Evil incarnate | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| hurdles | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Apple "openness" | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Free | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Agree to disagree | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| No, quite a lot is missing | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| But still sufficient to be useful | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| No, definitely usable even if crippled | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| you misunderstood me | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| One More thing | 01/01/70 00:00 |