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Apple on the Move

Apple continues to impress both in unit sales and marketshare gains. It has taken Steve Jobs awhile to make significant inroads into PC marketshare, but you are now witnessing the fruits of his perseverance. If Apple only had a development environment equivalent to Visual Studio and a framework as comprehensive and user-friendly as .NET, it would really begin to make serious progress towards wider adoption.

Objective-C with XCode and Java are decent development environments and frameworks compared to what has historically been available, but in order for me to give it a serious look as a development platform, they really do need to step up their game.

The development tools and frameworks are really what has kept me solidly in the Windows camp over the past five years and that is where I'll stay until Apple, or even Linux, can offer something as robust, comprehensive, and developer friendly as Microsoft provides with Visual Studio.

Posted by: Tiggster   Posted on: 07/21/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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