On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Andy Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think we have a disconnect as to what you meant by "lowering the barriers" > -- hence my reference to that particular phrase.
I'd like to point out that the "barrier" to which my post referred to was that of *commitment* to the Cocoa design philosophy, and the specific side-effect I didn't mind was gentle growth of the platform: On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Hamish Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 6:03 AM, Peter Duniho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> And as long as you guys keep insisting that there's nothing wrong with the >> environment, and that people "just need to get used to it" and "then they'll >> love it", you're not going to get the kind of developer excitement needed to >> ensure the kind of developer support required to get the Mac really into the >> mainstream. At a minimum, market growth is going to happen a LOT more >> slowly than it could otherwise. > > I don't see that as a particularly bad thing. I don't want to see my > platform of choice suddenly awash with apps written by people who > don't want to take the time to understand the whole picture. I'm > pretty sure such apps would be less likely to conform to the HIG, and > less likely to have been properly profiled for performance. I guess the documentation could arguably be made better by continually repeating the mantra that the conceptual documents need to be read and understood; but, isn't that what this mailing list is for? ;) Hamish _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
