Re: How viable is Cocoa development?
Re: How viable is Cocoa development?
- Subject: Re: How viable is Cocoa development?
- From: Chris Hanson <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 16:30:25 -0600
At 10:50 PM -0600 1/25/02, Erik M. Buck wrote:
Apple spent years saying that OpenDoc was THE future.
True.
They said GX was THE future.
True.
Apple used OpenDoc and GX internally to the
extent possible.
Not true at all. And this is the key difference: Apple is using
Cocoa many, many, many more places than they ever used either OpenDoc
or QuickDraw GX.
There is a trust and credibility issue with Apple regardless of any
technical merit of any technology that Apple might be half heartedly pushing
this year.
How many technologies has Apple pushed and then dropped since the
beginning of 2001?
Apple just won't talk about future directions any more for exactly
this reason, even under NDA, except with the developers they consider
the most special (and most able to keep secrets in confidence). The
reason is to help rebuild developer and user credibility. And,
frankly, it's working pretty well with many Macintosh developers.
-- Chris
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