Opinions on a purchase
Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 1:50 am
I have a platform credit with Runrev that would give me a free platform. I have Mac/Windows and iOS already and have signed up as an Apple dev already. I work with Windows in my day job as an architect because Revit only runs on Windows, so Parallels has become my friend. But bottom line I am a Mac guy.
Given that I am deluded lotus eater that is happy in the walled iOS garden, I look out at the Wild West craziness of the Android world and shudder - how can you even begin to test something in that mish mash of hardware and a market that's fragmented 16 ways from Sunday. So, even though I know about the Android numbers and how open is going to take over the world yada yada, I'm not really interested in getting into that sandbox - so scratch the Android platform addon.
With all respect to Richard Gaskin, Linux sort of strikes me in the same way. I have installed Mint and even had an Asus EEE for travelling (hated that keyboard) so I'm not scared of Linux. But everyone that has enough savvy to install Linux and get it fully operational is geek enough to do their own coding and not likely to be a customer of mine. Linux is also tied tightly to open source, so paying for software is not ingrained in the culture - so scratch the Android platform addon.
Windows Mobile 6.5 is another non-starter - but I'm watching for 8 to see if they can float the ship.
I hear the web deployment platform requires a plugin (yuck - 90's) that I have not been able to successfully install or test on Firefox 9 or 10, Safari 5.1.3 or Chrome 16. I also hear that this has been this way for a while without progress being visible. I'm also confused with rev-on - is this hosting with the engine enabled or is it the engine that I can install on my own host? I would love to host web apps on a server and have friends and family play online, but I'm skeptical that I would be able to actually make that happen.
Basically, I have all the platforms that I really am interested in but hate the idea of credits going to waste. Any discussion on what the future might be would help me decide what to do.
Thanks
Kelly
Given that I am deluded lotus eater that is happy in the walled iOS garden, I look out at the Wild West craziness of the Android world and shudder - how can you even begin to test something in that mish mash of hardware and a market that's fragmented 16 ways from Sunday. So, even though I know about the Android numbers and how open is going to take over the world yada yada, I'm not really interested in getting into that sandbox - so scratch the Android platform addon.
With all respect to Richard Gaskin, Linux sort of strikes me in the same way. I have installed Mint and even had an Asus EEE for travelling (hated that keyboard) so I'm not scared of Linux. But everyone that has enough savvy to install Linux and get it fully operational is geek enough to do their own coding and not likely to be a customer of mine. Linux is also tied tightly to open source, so paying for software is not ingrained in the culture - so scratch the Android platform addon.
Windows Mobile 6.5 is another non-starter - but I'm watching for 8 to see if they can float the ship.
I hear the web deployment platform requires a plugin (yuck - 90's) that I have not been able to successfully install or test on Firefox 9 or 10, Safari 5.1.3 or Chrome 16. I also hear that this has been this way for a while without progress being visible. I'm also confused with rev-on - is this hosting with the engine enabled or is it the engine that I can install on my own host? I would love to host web apps on a server and have friends and family play online, but I'm skeptical that I would be able to actually make that happen.
Basically, I have all the platforms that I really am interested in but hate the idea of credits going to waste. Any discussion on what the future might be would help me decide what to do.
Thanks
Kelly