On 2010-03-15, at 03:42, Kevin Woolley wrote: > A. Have the guts to stop apologising for Linden Lab's decisions. You > own the > ballpark. Apple has a great developer program but that doesn't mean > that it > squirmed to its users because XCode 3.2 beta (iPad capable) wasn't > available > the moment Steve Jobs announced the iPad.
Even Apple knows when to let the users drive. If Apple didn't listen to the users and developers back in the '90s when Steve Jobs wanted to cut the old Mac OS off cold, and Adobe told them they would NOT be porting Photoshop to NeXTStep (Yellow Box), they'd be out of business by now. Instead Apple deferred the release of Rhapsody for three years, produced Carbon as an interim framework for transitioning from Mac OS to Mac OS X, and ended up with a better product. Microsoft has been through this as well. When they initially released Visual Studio .NET with crippled legacy support the developers rebelled en mass and kept using Visual Studio 6. They eventually r- released VS6 and brought back legacy support in later versions. As for the applet store, look at the competition. None of the companies who have tried to replicate it have succeeded, because nobody else has the economies of scale. The idea that Linden Lab could make it work where Google's struggling is nuts. _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
