A Developer already released Virtual Desktops!

[whitesaint]

Well for those of you that know I am working on a Virtual Desktops application, this really sucks for me. I never thought it would happen in a billion years, but another developer has just released (last night) Virtual Desktops for OS X.

However I think it is really ugly, and doesn't feel like a "first class citizen". What do you guys think about this? Do you guys think that if I work on my app really hard it might get more attention than this one? All feedback is welcome and appreciated, thanks.

-whitesaint

[rinse]

Beleive in your app! Keep developing it. It will be a better one than his? Right?

Remember that Brett Larson on TechTV is featuring MacOSx apps... keep gooing, make it good and submit it!

[didde]

Hey man,

Competition is what gets us where we want to be...

I'm sure your app will be better then this one, then the other developer will be forced to improve his and so it goes.

Keep on writing that code damned!

[tie]

You should contact the other developer and buy him out. Competition be d***ed. Then double your prices. Seriously, he's stealing your market share.

[Trip]

This is it!!!

This is what programming in the computer world is all about! Competition! Making sure your application beats the sh!t out of that other guys application!

Release your program shortly and show the world what you can do! If the world response badly, then just build up another release and I assure you they will love it!

Same thing happened to me with the Mac OS X Features Guide, only 45 people downloaded the first build, but the second and third builds got over 4,000 downloads the first few months! We are now working on build four in Cocoa!

[xaqintosh]

{I like the Features guide, although it is still kind of buggy...}

there are currently 2 virtual desktop apps out, not including WhiteSaints:

http://www.versiontracker.com/morein...d=14996&db=mac

http://www.versiontracker.com/morein...id=9738&db=mac

just FYI

[Trip]

The more the better? Heck, I may make one myself so WhiteSaint can have the fun of beating me down with his.

[symphonix]

I think Whitesaint is onto a winner with his version - the animation of the desktop switching is brilliant. Plus, your version will work exactly the way you want it to. Go for it WhiteSaint, we'll help you out with ideas and testing, right guys?

And WhiteSaint, I can sympathise completely. I'm 90% finished putting together a visual-guide to MacOsX tricks as a web-site. It was going to show, with plenty of screenshots and information, every single option available for mucking with Samba, FTP and Apache. Now the screenshots of Jaguar show that most of my work is going to have to go out the window as most of these options are either implemented neatly through pref-panes or have been moved around.

Anyway, keep us posted WhiteSaint. We're all looking forward to the next version!