I just received an ADC email with this as the main topic along with lots of other stuff.
Apples are nice to develop on out of the box as you can do quite a bit with what you get on the machine and from Apple's website or elsewhere.
Except for the x86 stuff. The part-time programmer or hacker that writes a little tool or wants to port some open source code isn't going to shell out a grand to rent an old Pentium 4 system.
Anything that I do on the Mac OSX platform is going to be using the free tools for the PowerPC platform. If they want the small developer to start looking at their future platform, then they should give out a development platform for free to the small guys too.
Even Microsoft has learned this lesson.
Apples are nice to develop on out of the box as you can do quite a bit with what you get on the machine and from Apple's website or elsewhere.
Except for the x86 stuff. The part-time programmer or hacker that writes a little tool or wants to port some open source code isn't going to shell out a grand to rent an old Pentium 4 system.
Anything that I do on the Mac OSX platform is going to be using the free tools for the PowerPC platform. If they want the small developer to start looking at their future platform, then they should give out a development platform for free to the small guys too.
Even Microsoft has learned this lesson.