From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>
Date: November 19, 2007 12:59:26 AM MST
To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Re: Imaging Source Abandoning FireWire?
Hi Duane;
On 19-Nov-07, at 12:23 AM, Duane wrote:
I for one appreciate solid software, and respect those of you who code (because I can't
stand it). There are different perspectives here though.
ASTRO IIDC doesn't have much for competition and Milton doesn't have to worry about his
program being spied and copied.
Yes I do worry about that. That's why I have the unlock code system for starters.
As to competition, you only get competition if there a market. There isn't much and the bulk of my sales are for Microscopy. And given how Apple keeps making everything more and more difficult for developers, it's just a question of time for the marginal non main stream apps to disappear, like the geoscience are for the Mac.
Apple has Microsoft breathing down it's back and
copying everything they possibly can. We're also talking about a whole OS here that has to
be compatible with "everything". There are going to be issues.
Umm - Apple has stolen a lot of ideas from Micro Soft too. We could go back to the "Original Sin" where Steve did steal the mouse/ GUI interface from Xerox.
As to issues, Apple should never have shipped Leopard the way it is, It's not even late stage beta. They got forced to because they spent a good chunk of this dev cycle on iPhone/iPod dev. So they short changed us developers and said "too bad" - let them figure it out with no documentation and no help. Tons of stuff has been dumped with no warning and no replacement APIs - your just screwed and left to find your own work arounds.
Anybody installing Leopard (or any other OS X upgrade) should do an archive install if you
want a smooth running system without the hassle of re-installing everything. I would
never do an upgrade any other way. I've done a couple dozen Leopard installs without any
issues—all archive installs.
What I've heard i the best way to be successful with Leopard is wipe and clean instal. And that's normally what I do because Apple does get it wrong - just like every other company does. But it depends on what software you have installed.
Now that Leopard is out, Apple should be helping their developers get their apps up and
running on it. It's in everybody's best interest.
No - Apple should have let developers test software before they shipped the GM version. Many developers got whacked with Leopard and had their code working fine in all the alphas and betas, right up until the final release.
And they are offering no help. Developers ask questions on the various FireWire/ UBS and QT Apple Lists and get no response.
PS. Will version 4 be a paid upgrade? If so, how much will the full price be compared to the
upgrade?
Paid upgrade. Price has not been determined yet. I've sunk about 12 months development (24 months time wise) time into it so far and have a lot more testing to do, so I don't expect a release until 1st quarter 2008. Prices will be going up soon as the fall of the US dollar and rise of the Canadian dollar have cut my meager earnings by 40% over the last 18 months.
TTYL..
Milton J. Aupperle
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