Rev 2.02/New pricing

[Phil Jimmieson]

>On Thursday, July 17, 2003, at 05:31  PM, Edwin Gore wrote:
>
>>I don't think that they can honestly say that the studio product 
>>allows you to create applications for all supported platforms, 
>>since it's impossible to TEST the applications without using 
>>another one of the products.
>
>You have a point, but: show of hands -- who here has built an app 
>for another platform without ever testing on that platform and had 
>it just work?

I've had minor cosmetic issues show up (dodgy fonts, windows drawn 
with a default background colour other than I expected) but I was 
able to fix these on the Mac - no windows IDE required.

>And who has had the exact opposite experience; serious 
>platform-specific issues that required working on that platform to 
>fix?

I found that there was a problem with pathnames to quicktime files 
that only appeared under windows (it was in version 1.1.1 and I can't 
remember the details now). But suffice it to say that if I hadn't 
been able to debug the software under windows, it would have been 
*very* much harder to figure out what the problem was and code around 
it.

>You can build for OS X on other platforms, just not for OS <=9. 
>Obviously this issue is getting smaller as time passes.

But there are still a lot of people using OS9. Would you really want 
to unnecessarily cut them off from your potential audience? If you 
have to pay $800 more to be able to debug the software on OS9 when 
you're working on OSX then I imagine a lot of people just won't 
bother, so you won't get an OS9 version of the software. Personally 
I'd hate the loss of the ability to debug on any platform.

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