On August 8, 2013 at 06:00, FTLCory said...
It might help you if you think of RTI like Apple. Every publisher and every App that is published on the App Store has to go through a vetting process. Like Apple, RTI wants to protect its brand by only allowing professionals to publish "apps" on their hardware.
That's a bad analogy. Anyone can get the Apple dev tools and develop an IOS/OSX app as side hobby. There's some regulation in publishing that app to a wider audience, but if one runs through enough hoops, it can be done.
There is no equivalent hobby path for RTI. There is a strict requirement to be a dealer in the primary business of selling/supporting RTI.
The arguments whether the RTI approach is good or bad have taken place many times on this forum. Anyone interested can do a search. Whichever camp one falls under, it's not the Apple model.
