[Ti] like hell freezing over ?

[Kynan Shook]

OK, to correct some information, Alan: Apple does NOT charge for the  
developer tools.

Xcode comes with *EVERY* copy of Tiger.  You can download the  
developer tools from Apple if you are an ADC Online member (which is  
free).  The documentation is included, free.  The APIs and lots of  
wonderful reference material, including oodles of sample code, all free.

The Select and Premier programs Shawn referenced include things like  
prerelease software seeding, hardware discounts, technical support  
from Apple engineers, and much much more.  These are for the really  
serious developers.

Apple has a great developer community - as Steve mentioned yesterday,  
there are 500,000 registered developers, and 12,000 applications.   
Even if the transition to Intel loses a few developers, the ones lost  
will be from the bottom of the barrel - the companies and people who  
aren't committed to providing a quality product.

Alan Thompson <alan at alanthompson.net> writes:
> Ok, you have a point.  However, I would argue that Microsoft might
> have a bit more leverage to charge their developers for dev tools.
> But whatever, I'm just saying that it seems like with some crazy
> things going on with Apple - OS X transition, now instruction set
> transition, plus miniscule market share makes me think that you'd
> want to make it more attractive to developers like Omni, etc., rather
> than charging them.  But that appears to be just me.