home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
Text File | 1996-06-23 | 4.0 KB | 76 lines | [TEXT/ttxt] |
- The 1996 MacHack Top Issues For Apple Result
-
- Based on 108 returned ballots
-
- Format:
- rank/votes. What Apple should do
- General illustration or explanation of the issue
-
- The Result:
-
- 1/66. Encourage academic/hobby development.
- Support college students in Mac hacking with affordable access to systems, tools, and docs.
- 2/57. Use real release numbers!
- Give each new release of each system software component a new, higher,version number, an actual sequential real number, not a "release 2a."
- 3/47. Provide MacOS 8 API's under System 7.
- Give us backward-compatibility API's to ease the transition so developers can maintain one source base.
- 4/40. Give us cheap Macs.
- Let each developer purchase an affordable, high-end development workstation.
- 5(tie)/37. Improve hardware quality
- Make it right from the start so it won't break when we need it most.
- 5(tie)/37. Give us more Sprockets.
- We need more application-specific frameworks for comm., text, Apple events, I/O, etc.
- 6(tie)/32. Increase installed base of key new Apple technologies.
- Optional installs of essential resources discourage customer adoption.
- 6(tie)/32. Improve API Quality across-the-board.
- 7/28. Give us Radar access.
- Open up your internal bug-tracking database to developers (respecting confidentiality).
- 8/27. Revive the "Cool Tool" awards.
- 9(tie)/26. Recognize and reward Mac-first/Mac-only development.
- Create a program with tangible marketing incentives for releasing apps first on the Mac.
- 9(tie)/26. Don't snub Pascal.
- Provide Pascal API's for all Apple technologies. Don't require C/C++.
- 10/24. Help drive adoption of Apple technologies by delivering them cross-platform.
- 11(tie)/21. Help us avoid DLL confusion and conflict in System 7.
- We need coordination of shared library issues and versions.
- 11(tie)/21. Give us protected memory - now!
- 12(tie)/19. Apple's chief technologist should know how to patch a trap.
- 12(tie)/19. Give us your test tools.
- Provide developer access to Apple's internal software testing tools, as appropriate.
- 12(tie)/19. Provide a system-level exception model.
- 13(tie)/16. Improve Apple's developer tools.
- Give us what we need to create great apps using the latest technologies.
- 13(tie)/16. Use our test tools.
- Take advantage of third-party stress-test tools to produce better system software.
- 13(tie)/16. Improve the developer seed program.
- Give us better, faster access to new hardware and software.
- 13(tie)/16. Give us one feature per file.
- Consolidate all shared libraries, cdevs, etc. that are related into a single, shared resource.
- 13(tie)/16. Improve TextEdit.
- Get rid of limits and incorporate support for new technologies in Apple's text-editing engine.
- 14/14. Improve WWDC.
- We want better food, more emphasis on existing technologies, and better room sizes.
- 15(tie)/12. Offer priority service for developer's hardware.
- Keep our machines running so our development isn't interrupted and products delayed.
- 15(tie)/12. Provide low-cost/minimal developer tools.
- Don't shut out entry-level developers by forcing them to buy third-party tools.
- 16(tie)/11. "We can all be friends."
- Don't stomp third-party developers through unfair competition.
- 16(tie)/11. Improve the system software installation process.
- 17(tie)/10. Improve Macintosh documentation and technical information.
- 17(tie)/10. Provide mechanism to quickly disable non-essential extensions.
- For example, we want to be able to press a key to load just CD-ROM drivers and the like.
- 18/8. Give developers more informational "ammo" so they can fight for Macintosh.
- 19(tie)/7. Provide file mapping for Code Fragment Manager 68K and CFM PPC with VM off.
- 19(tie)/7. Provide online Apple Developer Relations presence and support.
- 20/4. Kudos to Apple for doing some things right.
- 21(tie)/3. Improve Developer Technical Support.
- 21(tie)/3. Offer an all-inclusive "premium" Mac developer program.
- Provide a higher-priced membership level that includes ETO, everything needed.
-
- Thanks you to all who participated!
-
- Jon Kalb
- Raines Cohen
- Timothy Knox
-