Re: Cocoa/EOF for non-enterprise apps Re: proof of cocoa
Re: Cocoa/EOF for non-enterprise apps Re: proof of cocoa
- Subject: Re: Cocoa/EOF for non-enterprise apps Re: proof of cocoa
- From: Deirdre Saoirse Moen <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 21:42:06 -0700
Quoting Scott Anguish:
I don't particularly appreciate being marginallized. But, I
also realize that trying to discuss this at this point is a dead
end. Why Bill seems to be so willing to defend Apple's lying is
beyond me.
It's beyond me too. Fine, he's happy with Java. Other people aren't
happy. I've seen third parties dropping support for products. That's
NOT a good thing.
Apple made a distinct, clear, repeated, public, commitment to
EOF/Obj-C on OS X... that has turned out to be untrue.
Incidentally.. I'm IN the higher-education market. Apple is
not making inroads "here". Not in the least. Our department was
100% Apple when I came on board.. it is now less than 50%, and
dropping.
All I have to say is that, in 9 weeks of job hunting, I got NOT ONE
job interview that was for solely Mac programming; the offer I
received had a Mac programming component, but is > 90% Linux. I've
had to leave Mac programming to live. If Apple realizes that people
like me, who have a long history in Mac development, are important,
they might survive.
What Apple has done here is lie.. plain and simple.
MANY projects are being hit by this, but most people
recognize that being vocal about it is futile. Apple simply doesn't
care. I wish that wasn't the case.
But, then again 400 of us where told at WWDC that we "cared too much".
I have never, in my entire career, been as angry as I was when I
heard that statement at the Stepwise BoF. The flipping arrogance of
it, especially coming from a product manager. And if it was my
company, I would have fired him.
The reality is that Apple doesn't care enough.
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