Auszug aus Coders at Work: Plattformübergreifende Softwarereleases
[…] The other big thing was we always shipped all plattforms simultaneously; that wa another Thing they thought was just stupid. “oh, 90 percent of people are using Windows so we’ll focus on the Windows side of things and then we’ll port it later. Which ist what many other failed companies have done.
If you’re trying to ship a cross platform product, history really shows that’s how you don’t do it. If you you want it to really be cross platform, you have to do them simultaneously. The porting thing results in a crappy product on the second plattform. […]
Sehr wahre Aussage. Ich bin mal gespannt, wann Chrome auf OSX herauskommt. Apple entwickelt im übrigen Safari Cross Plattform wie oben beschrieben.
