Re: Cocoa's Popularity
Re: Cocoa's Popularity
- Subject: Re: Cocoa's Popularity
- From: Alex Rice <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 08:49:07 -0700
On Friday, March 22, 2002, at 10:25 PM, Erik M. Buck wrote:
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.
I watched a recent developers conference quicktime of Avie Tevanian as
well as some marketing guy in a semi-technical "geek talk" about OS X.
Guess what? Carbon was brushed off with hardly mention. In fact Cocoa
was the primary focus, and several 3rd party developers came on to demo
their Cocoa apps. So at this point, your idea sketched out above is not
bearing out and seems to be very speculative.
Sorry I can't find the URL for the quicktime right now, but it was
pretty fun to watch.
Alex Rice <email@hidden>
Mindlube Software
http://www.mindlube.com/
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