Rép : Cocoa's Popularity
Rép : Cocoa's Popularity
- Subject: Rép : Cocoa's Popularity
- From: Thomas Lachand-Robert <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 11:24:54 +0100
That's funny how so many people here are talking about "Apple" as if it
were a single-headed person. It is certainly not. Even Steve has only 24h
in his days, and he can certainly not intervene into every single decision
at Apple Comp. Co. Plus he doesn't have expertise in mainly concerned
fields.
My feelings is that there is at least two sort of people at Apple's taking
decision on the software-relation with the developers part:
1/ the majority are probably people already been there before Steve got
back five years ago; most of these ones underestimate the usefulness of a
strong community, and they would probably scrap Cocoa if they could. That
was not a strong tradition on older Mac OS, and there is obvious
advantages to keep some things secrets in the system;
2/ there is a (probably influent) minority of people coming from NeXt. I
guess they have an almost opposite point of view. (They would scrap Carbon
if they could.)
Anyway all these ones are only a small part of Apple Comp. Co. There are
some people building software for the grand public (iTunes etc.), they are
also a lot of people in hardware. All of them have probably opinions about
Cocoa, the system, etc. Nothing here is "Apple's opinion".
MY opinion is that the most important thing that Apple should for ME is
1/ survive
2/ sell more macs
3/ continue to support Cocoa,
in that order of importance. None of these goals are obvious to attain,
but the third is certainly much easier...
Thomas Lachand-Robert
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<< Et le chemin est long du projet ` la chose. >> Molihre, Tartuffe.
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