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- From: DRAPER@ODIN.MDA.UTH.TMC.EDU
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.oop.macapp3
- Subject: Re: more ETO griping...
- Message-ID: <9301111526.AA00818@odin.mda.uth.tmc.edu>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 15:30:00 GMT
- Sender: daemon@Apple.COM
- Organization: AppleLink Gateway
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- >To make themselves dependent upon third parties for the development tools is
- >rather foolish in my opinion. Why did they do MacApp to begin with?!
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- I couldn't disagree more. Apple's domination of the development tools
- market has seriously hindered the development of new tools by third
- parties. Haven't you ever ask yourself why Borland and Microsoft haven't
- entered the Mac development tools market?
-
- Here's an excerpt from one of my postings back in September:
-
- >Where is the competition?
- >WHERE IS THE FREEMARKET?
- >Is the current deficiency in Mac programming tools a product of:
- > a) Apple's *over involvement* in development tools?
- > Or perhaps:
- > a) Developer over reliance on Apple tools?
-
- I think it's as pertinent today as it was back then. WE NEED CHOICE. Why
- did Apple have to deal with Symantec when it unloaded MacApp? Was there NO
- other developer in the entire world that could do the job? In my opinion,
- there are some really sticky Anti-Trust issues involved with this
- Apple/Symantec alliance.
-
- I don't mean to imply that Apple NOT be involved in the development tools
- market. But I do think that the main focus of development tools marketing
- should be to evangelize third party developers. Third parties should be
- the ones that are "pushing the technology envelope."
-
-
- People need to stop complaining about what Apple doesn't do, and simply do
- it themselves.
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- |E|J- ED DRAPER
- rEpar|D|<- Radiologic/Pathologic Institute
- The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
- draper@odin.mda.uth.tmc.edu
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