correct, in the best case one is simply not understood. In the worst case, you fly out of the pub, shop, businessā¦ or you end up on the wrong floor with the elevator 
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Great modern mobiles are handy, arenāt they?
Israelis and Americans are just smart business people, there is something for every tourist nation in their marketing . A bit like Xojo: promising everything but their IDE is everything but not handy.
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Yiddish
Toda raba Karen. Yes. I am yiddish.
Itās like you got a look at my source code. I feel personally attacked.
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Wow such nice ordered code
So thatās how devices get bricked.
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A true genius move:
I came up with the idea for API 2 precisely because I believed the API was accumulating cruft.
https://forum.xojo.com/t/something-pretty-right-the-history-and-legacy-of-visual-basic/74891/2
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I saw that and figured it would get linked here.
I had to read it twice. Yes, he really said that he had the insight to not give too much weight to the words of members of his own forum, with it being disproportionately composed of non-typical users. He said he learned this from Microsoftās experience with VB. His responsibility is to his typical users.
Makes me think of Nixon and his Silent Majority. That remark dates me
Overall, I personally am a satisfied customer (from what I gather, because my focus is desktop), yet I still found that treatise to be mind-boggling.
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The treatise has an unhealthy quantity of āIā. Much more āIā than ācustomerā or ādeveloperā.
So basically pros and long time hobbyist / ācitizen developersā whoās needs/desires increased the more experience they gotā¦
To me that was the clearest indication that they see their primary target market as beginners, and beginners who donāt want/need grow too much as codersā¦
Itās not that one canāt do more with Xojo, it just that they have decided they canāt compete with mainstream alternatives and decided to stop trying.
Which is why they are trying to sell themselves as ālow codeā, which they are not.
The āatypicalā fourm and NUG members are whom I learned the most from, and without whom I would not have stayed with the product.
-Karen
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I think their ālow codeā is just a rebranding of RAD, done for no reason other than that itās the new shiny.
But in the ātreatiseā he said that he answered to no one, and hence didnāt have to chase shinies. 
I prefer this quote:
It means we have to carefully design Xojo so that users arenāt exposed to things until they need them. Thatās not easy at all to do but it CAN be done. It just takes a lot more effort.
He finally admits that it takes a lot of work to implement thousands of bugs and find ways to sweep them under the rug?
I donāt know if itās because I read that narcissistic text at 5am, but itās definitely pathological. Anyway, a fantastic way to spoil my day. At least I now understand why there are declares in Xojo iOS and I can find my peace with Xojo. Itās not their fault, itās just who they are.
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Thank you. I already sent a copy to hello@moma.org 
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I have encountered several of the āitās all about Meā type CEOs. It never went well for the company, customers and staff.
This hubristic piece is embarrassing, even to the standards of TOF. No one dared adding a comment to it. Not the CEOās subordinates, nor the MVPs or any other member.
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Understandable, as a doctor I would also be afraid that it is something contagious. I take my hat off to the users who have put a like, the world belongs to the brave, but you can also quickly destroy your CV with a few mouse clicks.
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True, but in this particular case Iām more concerned about the mental health of the author. As a quick application for Americaās Got Talent, Iād let the lyrics pass and find them original. Maybe he just copied from the wrong email? None of us are getting any younger and we learned from Xojo that annoying mistakes can happen very quickly. It doesnāt help much if youāre a genius.
A stable genius? 