Re: cocoa-dev digest, Vol 1 #216 - 14 msgs
Re: cocoa-dev digest, Vol 1 #216 - 14 msgs
- Subject: Re: cocoa-dev digest, Vol 1 #216 - 14 msgs
- From: "John C. Randolph" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 14:05:41 -0700
On Sunday, July 1, 2001, at 12:11 PM, email@hidden wrote:
On Sunday, July 1, 2001, at 02:42 AM, Finlay Dobbie wrote:
http://www.stone.com/dev/StonesThrow2/OneFoxTwoFox.html
This is quite an interesting read, since it sings the praises of the
platform independent nature of Cocoa, and how wonderful it is because
we can write once and run on Rhapsody, Windows and soon Mac OS. If
only
this were still true today -- write once, run on OS X, Windows and
Classic...
Grrr. Stupid Apple! :-P
Are there any plans to resurrect Yellow Box for Windows?
Sure, right after Steve gets hit by a bus.
-jcr
Both remarks really unfair (and out of topics). Please remember that
1/ without Steve Jobs, the Mac, NeXt wouldn't exist, plus Apple
probably would have sunk two years ago;
2/ Apple sells HARDWARE, and makes money from that;
3/ Should Apple port Yellow box to Windows, M$ would immediatly exert
GREAT reprisals;
If you have to be angry, aim to Microsof who sells bad software and use
unfair commercial practives; and to the american judge who beliees it's
normal.
Thomas,
Apple made the promise (*promise*, mind you, not a vague hint) for three
consecutive years at WWDC that Yellow Box/Cocoa apps would be deployable
on Windoze. My sources indicate that the decision to reneg on this
promise was made by Steve himself.
Maybe this time he did it because MicroSquish had a gun to his head, or
maybe he did it for the same reason that he sandbagged IBM and Sun, thus
botching the first and second chances for NeXTSTEP to break out of its
niche market, but whatever the reason for this the upshot is that Apple
is a vendor which can't be trusted, and that is Steve's fault, and
no-one else's.
-jcr
"The problem with trying to child-proof the world, is that it makes
people neglect the far more important task of world-proofing the
child." -- Hugh Daniel