Re: Cocoa's Popularity
Re: Cocoa's Popularity
- Subject: Re: Cocoa's Popularity
- From: Mike <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 15:47:51 -0800
Brethren,
Let us never forget that a HUGE part of what is going on with OS X is
*all* about Steve's need to "I'll show you".
Harken, hath ye forgot the infamous tales of how Steve was ousted
from Apple to begin with and stormed off to create NeXT solely for
the purpose of "I'll show you"?
After 7 years of *failed* NeXT computers and software, Steve got his
chance: a comeback at Apple. Except for the original Macintosh (which
other people actually *created* anyway), and some good current
industrial design (which other people *created* anyway), Steve has
more failures on his resume than he does successes. One instance of
insane luck does not a visionary make.
The original NeXT OS and hence, to some degree still, OS X had (and
has) some serious flaws (such as the fact that somehow someone at
NeXT took one of the world's most stable and fastest OSes (FreeBSD),
and slowed it down to an unacceptable crawl (Darwin), and then based
"The world's most advanced operating system" on it
(Aqua/Quartz/Coccoa)). And hence OS X was born from a poorly-designed
15-year old derivative of an otherwise good free OS.
To make matters worse, Steve is now sending *Apple reps* into stores
like Fry's "to make sure no one boots a Mac into OS 9 in the store" -
i'm not kidding: an Apple rep said this to me at Fry's Sunnyvale
store. Sounds like OS-Nazis to me.
Much of what is going on at Apple is being driven by Steve's maniacal
need for vindication and proof that his ideas are the best. Mac OS X
is much more about this need than it is about good technology.
Steve sees how MicroSloth has foisted a crap OS on the world, and
dominated the world with it. In Steve's old age he has come to see
the wisdom that succeeding in the personal computer market is a lot
more about hype and marketing than it is about *great* software.
The original dream of the Mac - and elegant, easy to use OS is long
dead. OS X is just a sow's ear wrapped in an external silk purse.
Brethren, don't expect OS X to be something that it is not - it is
Steve's ultimate revenge and since Apple is hell bent on pushing it,
we either have to live with it as is, or go to another platform. You
Will Not Change Steve. Remember, this is the man who for seven years
said "no" to consumers who wanted to buy a NeXT computer if NeXT
would only put a floppy drive in the machine.
You Will Like OS X. You Will Use OS X. OS X Is Good For You Because
Steve Says So. Even if it's not what you want, even if it's not
superior technology, You Will Use It.
In the end, we make our own choices.
-m
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On Friday, March 22, 2002, at 07:29 PM, Ondra Cada wrote:
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. . . I *still* can't see any other reason than "to have time and
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sources for cra^H^H^Hthings like Genie effects
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Indeed! Keeping the Quartz vector scaling technology secret is
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nothing short of bone-headed on the part of Apple. It's not like
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MicroShit is going to steal it since they have no clue on how to
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develop a third generation "drawing engine." I got into this Cocoa
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mess after reading about Quartz; a killer app came to mind that
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requires vector scaling--aka,
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the "genie effect"-- in order to work. It's been ~18 months now
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and still there is _nothing_ out there so I make little progress on
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my million-dollar idea because Apple keeps this to themselves for
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reasons that are beyond comprehension. What a waste! The genie
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effect is cool, to be sure, and gets the PC weenies to chew their
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livers in envy which is nice, and I _love_ magnification in the
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dock, but there are tons of places where this technology could be
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put to more important use--science visualization to name only one!
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After much travail, bitterness, lurking, and reading everything I
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can get my eyeballs to focus on, I have come to believe that there
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is only one explanation for this all-too- frequent silliness on the
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part of Apple:
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the genius/stupidity of Steve Jobs!
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How one man can be responsible for the true elegance of a Ti
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Powerbook, new iMac, iBook, and the look-and-feel of Aqua for that
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matter, and at the same time allow such lame TV ads to be foisted on
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the buying public is one for the text books. In short, Steve
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Jobs--and as a result Apple itself--is an all too perfect example of
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a mixed blessing. If there were any reasonable alternative I'd bail
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on Apple in a heartbeat; alas, there is nothing else but Linux,
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which has all the elegance of a dead skunk, or a pact with the Devil
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incarnate. So, Hobson's Choice: if you want to ride, you ride the
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horse you are given because there are no other horses here on
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Hobson's planet.
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Brian E. Howard
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Cocoa Cult Central
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still trying to scale things up
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