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Developer Developments (6/25/98)
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Speaking of Carbon and Mac OS X, that little move (as well as lots of happy developments in the world of Apple over the past year) seems to have won over the developers at this year's MacHack conference. The standard annual "Bash Apple" session, which always generates a top-ten list of "demands" from the developer community, was altered this year to be a "Thank Apple" session instead. (Now there's something we never thought we'd see.) MacWEEK discusses this year's "more temperate" top-ten list, which, developer A. J. Fuller was quick to point out, is not a list of demands, but rather one of requests.
The developers' demands (er, requests) aren't surprising. Topping the list was the concern that small developers have been priced right out of the market by Apple's new developer program fees (which we had expected to generate lots of ire at MacHack). Other notable points included requests for ways to increase the development of games, ways to encourage students to program on the Mac platform, and an operating system build with debugging flags-- something that Microsoft has provided to Windows developers for a long time, we're told.
What we consider to be the most intriguing suggestion was the request that Apple bundle some development tools on the upcoming iMac. That one move could single-handedly attract hundreds or thousands of new developers; since the iMac is being targeted primarily at the home market (and we expect it'll be popular in schools, too), it'd be great if kids could try their hand at programming without having to shell out the cash for a student version of Codewarrior, for example. We say Apple should go for it.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 6/25/98 episode: June 25, 1998: Counting slots is the latest craze in Cupertino-- jump on the bandwagon! Meanwhile, Apple apparently spiked the MacHack Jolt with some kind of mood-altering chemical, as the developers transform a traditionally-contentious session into a virtual love-in, and Apple keeps giving money to schools (though not as much as Intel does)...
Other scenes from that episode: 804: Slots of Mystery (6/25/98) Six slots. Three Slots. Four slots. No one has any clue anymore just what Apple has planned for the high end of the Mac line when it comes to PCI expansion slots. The current "high end" isn't really high end at all-- the Gossamer motherboard in the Power Mac G3's was obviously designed as the basis for a line of midrange models... 806: Talkin' 'Bout My Education (6/25/98) There's a lot of talk about how Apple's losing its stronghold on the education market, and well that may be, especially given the way that Intel has been giving away "migration grants" to schools who move to Windows NT systems from Unix and Mac boxes...
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