[DUG] What is the future for Delphi programmer?

[Jolyon Smith]

> Sorry I disagree!

Are you sure?  Read what I said, then what you said ...


> In the mobile world most people are used to paying $50/$100+ per month 
> for their working environment.  

Yes, but these are the consumers of the apps, not the producers of the apps.


> iPhone apps are usually cheap, which favours smaller developers
> over larger ones.

*EXACTLY*

Embarcadero pricing and policies on the other hand are quite clearly aimed
at the larger developers, and increasingly so.


> And there is no MS offerings to do such software as far as I know...


I didn't mention Microsoft specifically (although the lack of any Delphi
comparable to Visual Studio Express is an obvious gap) but aiui you can use
MS tool to target iPhone, now that Mono have a solution for that platform.


But more relevant to my original observation is that, as I understand it,
the Apple developer tools for Mac and iPhone are free.

They may not compare feature-for-feature with the Delphi or Visual Studio
IDE's (I don't know) but "free" can compensate for a lot of
relative/perceived short-comings if the products still get the job done
(especially against HUGELY expensive alternatives).


-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz] On
Behalf Of John Bird
Sent: Friday, 15 January 2010 2:52 p.m.
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] What is the future for Delphi programmer?


John

>
> I see a problem with this little fantasy.
>
> Just as Kylix could have been the killer language for Linux, the problem 
> is
> in supplying a community that expects/wants/thrives on "free" or "cheap"
> with a product burdened by Enterprise scale pricing.
>



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