> On 24 Jun 2008, at 15:02, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> That's a different matter and may actually be a real reason to invest
> in Cocoa/Obj-C, but for most apps 64 bit needs are still quite far
> off. This can also happen gradually since you can perfectly combine
> Cocoa and Carbon in a sin
> I have known a few demented Mac users (of various subtypes) in my time
> (including myself,) but have never met one so powerful as described as
> to initiate an entire development project like that.
User keeps pestering helpdesk, helpdesk has no means of doing anything about
it -> pesters ad
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Richard Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What I am curious about is why are people porting programs from other
> platforms to the Mac?
Because other people are paying them? Obviously those people paying
developers to port apps to Macs beliave they will sell those
On 24 Jun 2008, at 15:02, Marco van de Voort wrote:
On 24 Jun 2008, at 14:18, Marco van de Voort wrote:
prefered way,
and invest massively in some ObjC solution, to not miss some word of
mouth
or a pat on the shoulder from Apple and/or partners.
Even several Mac-only developers do not do thi
> On 24 Jun 2008, at 14:18, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> > prefered way,
> > and invest massively in some ObjC solution, to not miss some word of
> > mouth
> > or a pat on the shoulder from Apple and/or partners.
>
> Even several Mac-only developers do not do this because they have too
> much i
On 24 Jun 2008, at 14:18, Marco van de Voort wrote:
If the devels targeting Mac with portable suites were so Mac centric
and
perfectionist as described in this thread, they would go the Apple
prefered way,
and invest massively in some ObjC solution, to not miss some word of
mouth
or a pat
> What I am curious about is why are people porting programs from other
> platforms to the Mac?
Simply because there is demand. Most of what is said goes for direct sales
to mac people, which is often not the case for these ported software. It is
a distinction that I somewhat miss in these discu
