On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 4:38 PM, William "Chops" Westfield
<westfw@mac.com> wrote:
>
> On Apr 18, 2010, at 1:26 AM, Xiaofan Chen wrote:
>
>> Apple is now a successful company by providing
>> superior user experience with "closed" technology
>
> It's not THAT closed. =A0The development environment for an iPhone is a
> lot more extensive and easier to get than for most other cell phones,

You need to pay to be a developer (which is quite reasonable as Android
charges money as well) and you need to have a Mac. So it is still kind of
closed.

> and OSX comes with a more complete development environment than most
> windows systems.

That is arguable. You still need to download xcode. Under Windows,
you can get the free Cygwin/MinGW or download the Windows SDK/WDK
or Visual Studo Express edition.

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