>Ok, but like it or not, I think the general consensus is . . . the iPhone interface was radically better (and now people are copying it and in some ways leapfrogging it).
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>I'd like to see a survey of VFP developers who've worked with ADO and other data access techniques in other languages and see how much support you get for your "their methods were neither inferior nor superior to what we were doing with VFP" statement. Frankly, I'm surprised you make a statement like that. You did use VFP, right? <g>
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>Obviously, we need to be open to change. I've been using a MacBook Pro since December. I use VMWare Fusion to run a Win7 VM on top of Snow Leopard. Having been a Mac fan from way back - but not really able to program for the Mac due to market share realities - I expected to love it. I don't. One reason is that Windows has gotten so much better. It was easy to see how the Mac beat DOS and early Window versions. These days the differences are more subtle. But there's also the issue of the Mac doing things that aren't as intuitive or as integrated as the Mac fanboys like to proclaim. I've found a number of frustrating issues that aren't about just being set in my Window ways. So despite trying to be open and going into it with a positive view of the Mac OS, I've found it to not be all it's cracked up to be (not that I hate it completely). Likewise with .NET . . . just because someone doesn't like .NET data handling doesn't mean they are just wanting it the old way. They might be very open to it and still feel that it is harder than it needs to be. Why does something have to be difficult to make people feel it's powerful and sophisticated?
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Yes, the differences between Windows Vista / Windows 7 and Mac OS X are much more subtle. But why is that? Here is an amusing take on it --
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT6YO30GhmQ
