Re: How viable is Cocoa development?
Re: How viable is Cocoa development?
- Subject: Re: How viable is Cocoa development?
- From: Gregory Weston <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 01:46:57 -0500
On 1/25/02 at 10:14 PM, "Erik M. Buck" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> It is sad, but the right solution does not always make it in the market
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> place. That being said, the problem with GX, as Gregory mentions above,
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> was not that GX was lousy technology, it was that developers didn't adopt
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> the new technology. That is what killed GX.
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And how is that different from Cocoa within Apple ?
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From what I can see, Cocoa already has more support and interest in the
Macintosh developer community than QDGX or OD ever did.
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You get the idea. Apple is already dropping parts of Cocoa. Is it such a
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stretch to see them drop it all (at least publicly ?)
So you're advocating a death spiral. Nobody rational should use technology FOO
because Apple is likely to drop it, but Apple is most likely to drop it
specifically _because_ nobody uses it. Self-fulfilling prophecy, no? If we want
Apple to keep Cocoa the most viable solution is to work to make it expensive, in
some way, for them to drop it.
G