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>To make themselves dependent upon third parties for the development tools is
>rather foolish in my opinion. Why did they do MacApp to begin with?!
 
I couldn't disagree more.  Apple's domination of the development tools
market has seriously hindered the development of new tools by third
parties.  Haven't you ever ask yourself why Borland and Microsoft haven't
entered the Mac development tools market?
 
Here's an excerpt from one of my postings back in September:
 
>Where is the competition?
>WHERE IS THE FREEMARKET?
>Is the current deficiency in Mac programming tools a product of:
>    a) Apple's *over involvement* in development tools?
> Or perhaps:
>    a) Developer over reliance on Apple tools?
 
I think it's as pertinent today as it was back then.  WE NEED CHOICE.  Why
did Apple have to deal with Symantec when it unloaded MacApp?  Was there NO
other developer in the entire world that could do the job?  In my opinion,
there are some really sticky Anti-Trust issues involved with this
Apple/Symantec alliance.
 
I don't mean to imply that Apple NOT be involved in the development tools
market.  But I do think that the main focus of development tools marketing
should be to evangelize third party developers.  Third parties should be
the ones that are "pushing the technology envelope."
 
 
People need to stop complaining about what Apple doesn't do, and simply do
it themselves.
 
 
 
 
      |E|J-  ED DRAPER
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