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Post #11 by TampaDeveloper
Source ForumMacNN
CategoryDevelopment
Post DateThu, 23 Jun 2005 - 08:28
Original URLhttps://web.archive.org/web/20050723084022/https://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?t=260396
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Originally Posted by Person Man
Yes but,

Applications built using these toolkits on the Mac won't FEEL like Macintosh applications. If an application doesn't FEEL like a Mac application (i.e. feels like something that was written for Windows first or Linus first), then I won't use it.

And I know many other Mac users won't either.


I'm developing my applications on a Mac, from the viewpoint of a Mac user. But competition in the software industry is difficult enough, even when you target 99% of the market. It is even more difficult to earn a living when only 2% of the market is targeted. I am unwilling to compromise the performance of my applications. Thus they are native Mac executables. But unfortunately, I cannot commit professional suicide by locking my application into Mac. I know, I know.. Separate the GUI code from the logic (it is, btw) and write two GUIs... But hey... Guess what? That takes significantly more development and testing resources. Resources I don't have.
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