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Re: CodeWarrior & Xcode Marketshare

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From: bolsinga
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 03:26
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<jonhoyle@mac.com> wrote:

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>Are there any figures on the current marketshare of Macintosh
>development tools, specificly Xcode & CodeWarrior?  Only a few years
>ago, Metrowerks CodeWarrior held a near monopoly on C++ tools, with
>ProjectBuilder in the fractional minority.  However, with Metrowerks
>shooting themselves in the foot these past two years, it's my
>understanding that CodeWarrior has dramaticly fallen and Xcode becoming
>the more popular choice.  Is there any data on this to either
>substantiate or refute this impression?

I think the data may be skewed. Xcode and Apple's developer tools are available
with every Macintosh sold, and every version of Mac OS X sold.

I'd also think that there's only two companies tracking it (the ones providing the tools), and neither make a big deal about the numbers. Could this mean it's even?
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