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Re:Microsoft's quarterly profit drops below Apple's for the ... by kenjackson on Friday April 29, 2011 @01:32PM (#2498191)
Also remember Apple having to back pedal from developers even generating code from non-sanctioned languages. It was the first time in history, that I recall, where a vendor not only specified a language, but also specified how code for that language was generated.
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Re:Microsoft's quarterly profit drops below Apple's for the ... by crs on Friday April 29, 2011 @02:33PM (#2498437)
I agree with you there, that was pretty ridiculous when I first saw they were attempting to do that. I will say though, I don't believe that was necessarily to force people to buy macs to develop. I think that by keeping people on the same toolchain, using the predetermined API's and LLVM, they could make major enhancements without having to worry about all the 3rd-party apps still working.
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