Re: Cocoa's Popularity
Re: Cocoa's Popularity
- Subject: Re: Cocoa's Popularity
- From: Matt Ronge <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 18:14:07 -0600
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And finally, just to inject my trademark rant: Apple is doing NOTHING to
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encourage Cocoa use as far as I can tell. Apple has been sitting on Cocoa
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technology for 7 years and with the exception of a few neat UI elements like
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Drawers, Apple has done nothing but diminish the technology. It is slower,
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buggier, and has overall fewer features than it had in 1996 IMHO. (List the
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frameworks that have been dropped, the loss of cross platform, DPS->Quartz
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is a downgrade in some respects, missing and/or degraded tools (PB,
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DigitalLibrarian, Text Edit code and services, Terminal services, The Finder
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is horrible...), loss of PDO, loss of Active-X and Java bean integration
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that was demonstrated in 1998 through 2000 and then disappeared, etc.)
I'm speaking with a great amount of ignorance here, (still being a Cocoa
newbie) but...
Why has Apple let so many powerful tools die off? I'm not talking about the
Finder, or DPS->Quartz but more on the lines of EOF, Active-X, Java Beans,
DigitalLibrarians and other things the Next programmers talk about.
Why?
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Matt Ronge
President
Monkeybread Software
http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.com
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