Comments on: 37 Signals & Apple http://blog.centopeia.com/2006/10/23/37-signals-apple/ Ramblings about digital life Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:03:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Pedro http://blog.centopeia.com/2006/10/23/37-signals-apple/#comment-2902 Pedro Mon, 23 Oct 2006 11:14:42 +0000 http://blog.centopeia.com/2006/10/23/37-signals-apple/#comment-2902 Of course it's in their best interest, nothing in Business isn't. But writing that you have to be a user mac to use Rails isn't correct at all, I know quite a lot of people using it on other unix enviroments like Linux for instance. Plus, resuming the increase of sales of Macs with a simple application like TextMate sounds a bit naive to me... no? Mac OS X is a true development platform meaning it has built in a bunch of features that make a whole lot easier developing on it. I personally use TextMate for Perl Programming, and I do recommend it to a whole lot languages other than Ruby. Just try it out, but really try it, and then decide which is going to be your editing application next! ;) Of course it’s in their best interest, nothing in Business isn’t. But writing that you have to be a user mac to use Rails isn’t correct at all, I know quite a lot of people using it on other unix enviroments like Linux for instance. Plus, resuming the increase of sales of Macs with a simple application like TextMate sounds a bit naive to me… no?

Mac OS X is a true development platform meaning it has built in a bunch of features that make a whole lot easier developing on it.

I personally use TextMate for Perl Programming, and I do recommend it to a whole lot languages other than Ruby. Just try it out, but really try it, and then decide which is going to be your editing application next! ;)

]]> By: Andre Medeiros http://blog.centopeia.com/2006/10/23/37-signals-apple/#comment-2900 Andre Medeiros Mon, 23 Oct 2006 11:01:18 +0000 http://blog.centopeia.com/2006/10/23/37-signals-apple/#comment-2900 I couldn't be less surprised about that. Keep in mind that 37Signals is the one behind Rails, and that anyone who's anyone in "Rails land" has to use a Macbook + Textmate (read <a href="http://www.radrails.org/blog/2006/9/12/radrails-textmate-and-why-taste-matters" title="" rel="nofollow">this</a>). Believe it or not, Apple had a spike in MacBook sales because of the hidden price tag Textmate has (read 2500 for a MacBook). It's in their best interest :) I couldn’t be less surprised about that. Keep in mind that 37Signals is the one behind Rails, and that anyone who’s anyone in “Rails land” has to use a Macbook + Textmate (read this). Believe it or not, Apple had a spike in MacBook sales because of the hidden price tag Textmate has (read 2500 for a MacBook).

It’s in their best interest :)

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