Re: Cocoa's Popularity
Re: Cocoa's Popularity
- Subject: Re: Cocoa's Popularity
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 20:12:52 -0500
On Friday, March 22, 2002, at 07:29 PM, Ondra Cada wrote:
. . . I *still* can't see any other reason than "to have time and sources
for cra^H^H^Hthings like Genie effects
Indeed! Keeping the Quartz vector scaling technology secret is nothing
short of bone-headed on the part of Apple. It's not like MicroShit is
going to steal it since they have no clue on how to develop a third
generation "drawing engine." I got into this Cocoa mess after reading
about Quartz; a killer app came to mind that requires vector scaling--aka,
the "genie effect"-- in order to work. It's been ~18 months now and
still there is _nothing_ out there so I make little progress on my
million-dollar idea because Apple keeps this to themselves for reasons
that are beyond comprehension. What a waste! The genie effect is cool,
to be sure, and gets the PC weenies to chew their livers in envy which is
nice, and I _love_ magnification in the dock, but there are tons of places
where this technology could be put to more important use--science
visualization to name only one!
After much travail, bitterness, lurking, and reading everything I can get
my eyeballs to focus on, I have come to believe that there is only one
explanation for this all-too- frequent silliness on the part of Apple:
the genius/stupidity of Steve Jobs!
How one man can be responsible for the true elegance of a Ti Powerbook,
new iMac, iBook, and the look-and-feel of Aqua for that matter, and at the
same time allow such lame TV ads to be foisted on the buying public is one
for the text books. In short, Steve Jobs--and as a result Apple itself--is
an all too perfect example of a mixed blessing. If there were any
reasonable alternative I'd bail on Apple in a heartbeat; alas, there is
nothing else but Linux, which has all the elegance of a dead skunk, or a
pact with the Devil incarnate. So, Hobson's Choice: if you want to ride,
you ride the horse you are given because there are no other horses here on
Hobson's planet.
Brian E. Howard
Cocoa Cult Central
still trying to scale things up
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