![]() ![]() Said like a programmer but simply not true. “Best advice, stop trying to get “normal” people to program. But really the goal post was always that you should be able to do for free what you can do with EVERY OTHER F’NG PLATFORM OUT THERE as a bare minimum, not just what I previously wrote. Sorry, I know I am shifting the goal post there. But it turned out they just added a free “basement” level that allowed running on an emulator but not on an actual device.Īlthough better than I remember, it’s still inferior and crappy if you can’t give the apple equivalent of an apk to your friends and let them use your app too. They were very insistent that Apple’s shitting on programmers was over. I remember being told by a bunch of mac fans that the developer program was free “now” (then) a long time ago. Did the croaking of Steve Jobs contribute to that?įorgive my doubting you. ![]() So you are saying that you can now write your own app, put it on your own iPhone, detach the phone, carry it around and use your app all without subscribing to anything extra from Apple now? The effect in which condensing business rules into software sooner or later ends up with “use this software” becoming the business rule because the original rules were forgotten also tends to hit especially hard in these environments. The dedicated business specific software of the 1970s, 1980s ran and hid in macros and spreadsheets… Even today, would I find even 10 packages that are user friendly software dedicated to running a given field of business in a given country in a whole linux distribution repo – I doubt it!. ![]() So a lot of contempt for the existing solutions, not much alternative. This got amplified by the open source community rarely putting much energy into creating business oriented software. People saying “What do you need MS office for, there are alternatives, they arent 100% compatible in their macro language, but who uses this….” misunderstood the landscape quite horribly… for some Word and Excel are just “mixed mediocre word processor and mediocre DTP” and “just the tables adder upper, graph maker program”, but a few people each in many businesses treated them as programming platforms, often making the result business essential quickly (and creating problems for any user of platforms that were not 1000% MS Office compatible/friendly). There is a huge amount of actual business software hidden in excel sheets, access databases, even word documents. Underestimating this is what probably slowed adoption of alternative office packages (anything not MS Office) and even alternative OSes down. Posted in Mac Hacks, Software Development Tagged apple, applescript, programming Post navigation Would that be such a bad piece of advice to give a non-developer writing software for their Mac today? The original iPhone didn’t have any third-party apps, and instead developers were supposed to write web apps to take advantage of the always-connected device. Maybe the most forward-thinking line on programming from Apple came in 2007, even if it wasn’t recognized as such. Was it simply before its time? In the modern era, Apple describes the reach of Shortcuts diplomatically: “its impact has so far been limited”. 1989’s Prograph graphical language looks amazing. The biggest surprise for us lies in the forgotten products. That would go on to be a mainstay of mid-1990s multimedia software, but while it’s fallen by the wayside it’s AppleScript which still has support in the latest MacOS. Or maybe you’re thinking of Hypertalk, the scripting component of 1987’s Hypercard. Probably the most familiar of them all is AppleScript, with its origins in late 1993. The Eclectic Light Company has a fascinating article looking at the various attempts that Apple has made to lure their users into creative programming. It shouldn’t have to be that way, if only programming were easier. For them, the computer is an appliance, and they do what their computer allows them to do. Whether the machine is a PC or a Mac, they don’t generally write their own software. Most people use their computer to run pre-packaged programs: usually a web browser, games, or office applications.
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