Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 19th Jul 2002 18:36 UTC
Remember a month ago, when I urged the open source developers to take on this software and develop something equivelant and multi-platform? It seems that the only people who actually got interested in my $100 USD offer... was Apple.
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Anonymous, I agree with what you say, but this is not what we discuss here. We do not discuss if what Apple did was right or wrong for Karelia.
We discuss if this strategy will create a problem for Apple in the long run, as competing with their third party developers, always destroy their own market. You say that if Karelia wants revenge, should port on Windows. But that is exactly what we are saying: Developers will leave OSX. And that would be bad for Apple in the long run!
You can't really compete with a manufacturer of an OS in application development. They always employ the best developers and they have access to unpublished APIs and tools. That alone gives an edge to the Apple application developers against the third party ones.