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Re: How viable is Cocoa development?
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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:

> > It is sad, but the right solution does not always make it in the market
> > place. That being said, the problem with GX, as Gregory mentions above,
> > was not that GX was lousy technology, it was that developers didn't adopt
> > the new technology. That is what killed GX.
> >
>
> And how is that different from Cocoa within Apple ?

>From what I can see, Cocoa already has more support and interest in the
Macintosh developer community than QDGX or OD ever did.

> You get the idea. Apple is already dropping parts of Cocoa. Is it such a
> 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


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