Encore un switch de plus vers le Mac mais celui-ci ne passe pas indifférent. Satoshi Nakajima, l’ancien architecte logiciel de Win95/98 et IE 3/4 qui a travaillé a Microsoft au près de Bill Gates pendant 14 ans, est un heureux switcher Mac.Il a essayé un mac il y a 2 ans et depuis il ne touche plus un PC. Il a même crée sa compagnie de développement logiciel pour iPhone.
Une ITW (en anglais) datant de juillet 08 a propos de son switch:
After working so long in the Windows environment, what attracted you to start exploring the Mac?
It was really just the look and feel, and also Apple was a competitor of Microsoft. We studied them as a competitor, so once I was outside Microsoft I felt like maybe I should learn more. So it was getting into it [initially] more like a competitor, and then to understand why some people are so into Apple products and yeah, I think I got it. The have some kind of emotional high that’s very strong, very attractive - most addictive (laughs).
What’s the biggest difference between developing for the iPhone and developing on the Windows platform?
Even though it’s based on the OS X operating system, the actual API sets we call [in Cocoa] are very different and really optimized for the iPhone environment. So a programmer can pay a lot of attention to power consumption, memory usage and most importantly, the user experience. With Windows Mobile, they simply brought Windows to mobile phones, so you program for Windows and that’s it, versus Apple’s optimization for the iPhone.
Were there other aspects of developing for iPhone that you found attractive?
The rest of the wireless world is so fragmented. We have 8 years of experience planning a business in mobile. I know that it’s so difficult to make money in the regular cell phone market because of this fragmentation, and the marketing costs, the channel costs of business development with wireless operators and then the porting costs to individual hardware way exceed the revenue, so a lot of developers lose money. With iPhone, it’s very unique because it’s one hardware, one channel, so the costs of distribution and the costs of developing for the hardware is a lot lower. And the addressable market is right now 6 million and its going to be 10 million by the end of the year, which is big enough for us.
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