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Firstly there are a lot of things I *do* like about Apple. I once spent a year or so programming music/MIDI stuff on Macs for use in a recording studio (I've still got a couple of foots worth of 'Inside Apple' manuals somewhere :-{ )

What I don't like is the way they always want to limit what you can do with their babies if you're not using approved tools....

As far as Gerards requirements go I can't see that it would make sense to go through the whole Mac learning curve - if the job can't be done using development tools with which you're at least partially familiar and there *is* a choice of hardware then change the hardware.

I probably know as many people using Macs as those using Win based machines - I suppose because a lot of them are in the film/music business. But I do get the feeling that a lot of them are still using Macs from habit - there's just as much good software on Windows available these days.....


>Oho!
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>All I will say is that A) you have always been one of my favorites here, and B) I can only consider this an inexplicable example of disliking anything that isn't Windows. IMO Apple are design geniuses. Think about it -- the Mac, iPod, iPhone, and iPad all came from the same company. Not to mention the Apple II way back when. The famous Super Bowl commercial got it exactly right -- this was a company that was not going to play by anyone else's rules and was going to push the envelope.
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>This is taking a trip down memory lane, and showing my age, but I went to a demo of the Lisa machine from Apple when it was launched. Along with the Xerox Star, it was the precursor to everything that has happened in computing since, at least as far as user interfaces go. (Yet more trivia -- it was named after Steve Jobs's illegitimate daughter). It was high priced and didn't sell many units. A couple of years later they got it right with the Macintosh.
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>>Hmm...
>>Looks like I might be wrong - Apple don't seem to want add-ins to be able to run - so no Silverlight (or Flash come to that)
>>No technical reasons why not - just Apple being poliitical idiots & a**holes again.
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>>But there is this:http://www.machackpc.com/featured/flash-silverlight-on-ipadiphone-with-out-installing-any-apps-videos/
>>(although I guess it won't work OOB)
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>>>Thye fact that Silverlight (I must confess I know very little about Silverlight) will run on an Apple Mac....I wonder does this necessarily mean it will also run on an IPAD. Does the Mac and IPAD run the same OS ?
>>>Regards,
>>>Gerard
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>>>>>Hi.
>>>>>We have been asked to develop a Front End Sale Person type app for an IPAD, and I have no idea whats involved here.
>>>>>Just wondering if anybody here has done any development on IPOD/IPAD and how different/Easier.mire dificult is it than VFP or Dor Net.. The data will need to find its way back into a VFP app also
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>>>>>Any comments would be appreciated
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>>>>You *could* consider SilverLight which is .NET based but will run on a Mac - and maybe look at the LightSwitch beta to simplify development (I confess that I haven't looked at the latter so I've no idea how it really works).
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>>>>I see elsewhere in the thread that the application must run whilst disconnected but Silverlight OOB should be OK there - written properly the app can easily detect whether it is connected or not and handle data accordingly....
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>>>>This approach could also circumvent the Mac v MS hardware/software argument since you won't be tied to one or the other....
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>>>>Plus you get automatic online installation/update, plus....
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>>>>(I'll let someone else iterate the negatives :-}