Re: Cocoa's Popularity
Re: Cocoa's Popularity
- Subject: Re: Cocoa's Popularity
- From: "Erik M. Buck" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 23:25:01 -0600
- Organization: EMB & Assocites Inc.
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Apple is very lucky to have a developer community like us. People who
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will, on blind faith, pick up a new technology (even a proven one), and
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run with it with nothing but promises from Apple, which have been broken
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so many times before. Steve knows our value, and Apple-at-large is
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beginning to realize it.
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I'm really excited about Cocoa, and even more excited about being part
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of a developer community that is so unified in its desires and agenda to
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improve the API. We're a force to be reckoned with, and Cocoa is
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growing and changing because of it.
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--Matt Judy
Ha. Ha. Nice joke, but it is not April 1 yet.
Apple neither knows about "a developer community that is so unified" nor
cares. Cocoa is not improving at any reasonable pace as far as I can see.
There have been a few improvements balanced with many degradations resulting
in progress that is charitably described as net zero progress (IMHO). Apple
knows which developers are important for the platform and Cocoa hobbyists
are not important. Given Apple's track record and NeXT's track record, what
makes anyone think Cocoa will still be for sale one year from now ? It
probably will be, but what incentive does Apple have to continue public
support of Cocoa ? After all, Cocoa is their "secret" competitive
advantage. Some one or two developer shop might compete iTunes or iMovie or
iPhoto by using Cocoa. Apple can achieve all of their goals by keeping Cocoa
for internal use only. Carbon is now a proven API. Apple may just give up
supporting multiple APIs and focus on the important one.
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