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Weblog:   Switch to MacTel: Easy or Not?
Subject:   very frusterating.
Date:   2005-09-02 09:52:46
From:   osviews.com
One of the things I found especially frustrating about some sites reporting the news about the origional Bruce Chizen interview is that people are saying, "HAH! Steve lied about the process being easy!" when actually Steve said that it was going to be easy for some and less easy for others depending on the software used to code your software. For example, if codewarrior was used rather than xcode, the transition may be more dificult. I can't blame Adobe for choosing codewarrior over xcode when making the transition after OS X was released... xcode wasn't available.


The perceptions generated by the news are just another example of Apple getting the short end of the perception stick because people are less familiar with Apple, they didn't hear what Steve origionally said, and its so much easier to suggest that Steve lied than to weigh the actual evidence.
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  • Derrick Story photo RE: very frusterating.
    2005-09-02 10:02:18  Derrick Story | O'Reilly AuthorO'Reilly Blogger [Reply | View]

    Yes, I've had similar thoughts and felt like now is the time to start this discussion where we can get more informed POVs from developers who are actually working on the transition. Yes, some of this stuff is under NDA. But I think we can begin by talking about the broad brush strokes.

    Thanks for your comments...
    • RE: very frusterating.
      2005-09-02 19:16:59  rsschaut [Reply | View]

      Yes, Derek, it's very frustrating. When Steve Jobs gets up on stage at WWDC and shows off Mathematica running on Intel after a few hours of work, every developer in the room knows that it's going to take months of testing before any of us would be willing to ship a product even after we've gotten to the point where it compiles, links and boots. We also know that for some of us, getting to the point where our apps compile, link and boot is going to be a hard row to hoe.

      None of that's frustrating in and of itself. What is frustrating is the customer backlash that's going to come when some of us don't have our apps ready when Intel-based Macs hit the market. That backlash is inevitable largely because, in the minds of customers and a handful of not particularly savvy members of the press (present company excluded), Jobs made it look as though it would be easy.

      None of this means that Jobs lied, or in any way, intentionally misled the public on this. After all, his audience was the developer community, not end users. There are, however, times when developers get caught between what Steve said and what the public thinks he said.

      And, it's frustrating, because you really can't lay the blame for this at anyone's feet, though there are some members of the press who really ought to know better (again, present company excluded).
      • RE: very frusterating.
        2005-09-02 19:18:47  rsschaut [Reply | View]

        Mea Culpa for misspelling your name, Derrick.
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