Re: Rép : Cocoa's Popularity
Re: Rép : Cocoa's Popularity
- Subject: Re: Rép : Cocoa's Popularity
- From: Mike <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 15:58:06 -0800
It is a single-headed person. Don't think for a minute that Steve
doesn't know what goes on in every corner of the company. Friends of
mine there whom i used to work with tell me he still randomly drops
in on even the most seemingly trivial meetings.
Think of the Borg from Star Trek.
-m
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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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