Not to mention free and of course you have all your favorite command line tools, compilers etc. I really suggest to all developers to take a good look at developing for this computer. There is an object called NSTask that allows you, the programmer in code, access and use the function of ANY command line tool in your program. Objective C is a great language and the fact you CAN use all your C/C++ code in your programs and integrate things adds to the functionality. You can make amazing, truely object oriented programs with a full GUI in no time t all. The Cocoa framework is, once you understand it, the easiest, most powerful framework there is. #Wine for mac os 10.2 for free#If your a pro you get all these amazing dev tools for free and if your a beginner now you have a reason to start. What no one is mentioning is that yes the OS is amazing (worth the high price of a Mac IMO) but the Dev tools are simply fantastic. I don't think Jobs wants to have to stand up and say that they're last month sales are dropping heavily then will he? Well, if this practice gets well known, then watch system sales drop even more next year before MacWorld as people wait for announcements then too. I was told by Apple support when asking about this that I should have known that something like this would be announced at MacWorld (as I guess the Mac faithful are used to hearing), and that had I known past history of MacWorld announcements, I would have waited. Had Apple said earlier that 10.2 was going to be a major release change (that was considered a major release change as opposed to 10.0 to 10.1), or announced it as OS 11 (which doesn't go well with their OSX abbreviation as then it would need to change to OSXI), then I might have held off for another month to get my laptop. #Wine for mac os 10.2 upgrade#I'd accept a decent upgrade price as I would expect for other OS's/packages. If you did publicize a new major release coming shortly (which Apple didn't do enough of earlier IMHO), you'd give those who just bought the older release a grace period to get the newer release, otherwise your sales will plummet before the next release with everyone waiting for it rather than buying the shortlived previous release. Even on major release updates, most other software vendors have a grace period of when you buy the previous release (a 1-3 months) that you get a low-cost or free upgrade to get the new one. I'm not very happy that less than a month after I bought a G4 powerbook that I'm told that now to have an up-to-date supported OS I need to shell out full price for a new version. I think that they kind of "snuck" this *major* upgrade on us after the fact.
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