Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 13:36:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> To: Fredrik Olausson <fredrik@speechcraft.com> Cc: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>, jmallett@xMach.org, dscheidt@tumbolia.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The desktop apathy Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10105271334220.26900-100000@moo.sysabend.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105272129090.133-100000@molly.telia.com>
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On Sun, 27 May 2001, Fredrik Olausson wrote: : :On Sun, 27 May 2001, Jordan Hubbard wrote: :> Again, Apple is trying to fight a much bigger battle. I think you :> should spend some time getting better acquainted with Apple's rather :> unique user base and mindset. : :I guess so... I'm a Windows programmer by profession (hears chants of :"Burn the heretic!" ;) : :> The programming :> frameworks provided by Apple also make anything GTK and QT provide :> look like tinkertoys by comparison. Just spend about an hour with :> their AppBuilder stuff sometime and see how you can connect stuff :> graphically to ObjectiveC classes. Very powerful. : :Speaking of which, If I buy a copy of MacOS X, will I get development :tools and such along with it, or do I have to buy a third-party :product? I've been meaning to get me one of those G4's and MacOS X to test :it, but where can I get the programming tools for it? A friend of mine bought a new iBook at the Apple store in Tysons Corner on Friday. The free OS X upgrade (and future bundled versions) will not ship with the Developer CD. The Mac OS X box does ship with the Developer CD. I guess Apple only wants people who upgrade their old Macs to do developement. Jamie Bowden -- "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" Iain Bowen <alaric@alaric.org.uk> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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