Re:Apple and future of computing
by octopus on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @10:22AM
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The usual whining about how Apple is a closed platform ... The Apple platform is no more closed than the Windows platform. Sure coding for iPhone and iPad is more restrictive than coding for a Mac, but nobody forces you to deploy your talent here. You can always develop for Android.
My point is that if you are a professional programmer you will use what tool is more appropriate for a certain hardware platform. For iPad and iPhone this happens to be the C family of languages (Objective-C, C and C++).
Re:Apple and future of computing
by madhukara on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @10:32AM
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Its just not about choice of languages or tool sets. Its about freedom . On windows platform there is no one there to forbid you to deploy your applications as Apple do with their Apple store.
My point is that if you are a professional programmer you will use what tool is more appropriate for a certain hardware platform. For iPad and iPhone this happens to be the C family of languages (Objective-C, C and C++).