[OT] GameOver Mr. Jobs

[Jeff Massung]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com
> wrote:

> Jeff Massung wrote:
>
>  Most importantly, as it likely pertains to Rev and other middle-ware
>> developers working with Apple on their TOS:
>>
>>
>> "We know from painful experience that letting a third party layer of
>> software come between the platform and the developer ultimately results in
>> sub-standard apps and hinders the enhancement and progress of the
>> platform.
>> If developers grow dependent on third party development libraries and
>> tools,
>> they can only take advantage of platform enhancements if and when the
>> third
>> party chooses to adopt the new features. We cannot be at the mercy of a
>> third party deciding if and when they will make our enhancements available
>> to our developers.
>>
>> This becomes even worse if the third party is supplying a cross platform
>> development tool. The third party may not adopt enhancements from one
>> platform unless they are available on all of their supported platforms.
>> Hence developers only have access to the lowest common denominator set of
>> features. Again, we cannot accept an outcome where developers are blocked
>> from using our innovations and enhancements because they are not available
>> on our competitor’s platforms."
>>
>> Read into it what you will.
>>
>
> True, most Java-based apps look pretty crappy, but that's not because Swing
> doesn't exist but merely because many Java developers are too lazy to use it
> well.
>
> And it's also true (at least last time I used it) that Flash is almost
> entirely devoid of native-looking controls, so it's well nigh impossible to
> make truly HIG-conformant apps with it unless you carefully craft every
> control yourself.
>
> But tools like Rev and even RealBASIC are used by people who care about how
> well their apps conform to the GUI conventions of their target platforms,
> and make a good effort to do so.
>
> Lumping all high-level multi-platform tools together is shortsighted.
>
>
I don't think (many) people would argue those points, but they are also
completely irrelevant.

Apple (Jobs?) has already made their decision and the justification given is
one that could just as easily be applied to RevMobile.

That's all I was pointing out with the quote.

Jeff M.