XCode 4
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- Amicus0
I'd like to buy all the whingers a box of kleenex, so they can dry their eyes and see reality from a better perspective.
XCode enables you to create software more easily, am I correct? So essentially it's a tool similar to a landscapers bobcat. I was going to say shovel, but that's still hard work, so a bobcat is more apt because you can sit on your arse and let the tool do a lot of the heavy lifting for you.
While landscapers have never been able to download a bobcat for free, developers have had 10 years of access to XCode for free. Bobcats cost money to run, maintain and to transport from job to job. XCode sits on your laptop with no running costs, no maintenance costs and if you happen to move sites you pick up your laptop and walk off with it.
To make money from a bobcat you have to use it constantly. XCode you can use once, write a program and with essentially no other work sit back and have profits come in for the next couple of years.
Do I need to add anything else to the argument? It would seem bobcats can't get much better, but XCode is on it's 4th release in 10 years and seemingly this latest version is far better than older versions. How about the fact that a bobcat is noisy and XCode isn't? XCode can be run on a computer that uses green energy, Bobcats use diesel. Bobcats take up room to store... you get my drift.
Take a deep breath, stop whining, stop feeling entitled to everything for free. Put your hand in your pocket and pay the measly $4.99 out of your spare change and be thankful that your life is so freaking easy.
Here, sounds like you need these:
/rant.