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Re: Cocoa/EOF for non-enterprise apps Re: proof of cocoa
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Re: Cocoa/EOF for non-enterprise apps Re: proof of cocoa


  • Subject: Re: Cocoa/EOF for non-enterprise apps Re: proof of cocoa
  • From: "John C. Randolph" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 11:52:34 -0700

On Thursday, June 14, 2001, at 07:51 AM, Bill Bumgarner wrote:

Unfortunately, maintaining the ObjC/EOF APIs does not have an ROI that can justify the resources necessary to do so-- not insignificant resources.

What's the ROI on being a reliable vendor that can be trusted to keep promises?

As Eric Buck and others have pointed out, there is a significant amount of revenue out there (tens of millions) that Apple has pissed away by reneging on ObjC/EOF and other promises.

-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


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