Re: Apple and Developers (was lots of different subjects)
Re: Apple and Developers (was lots of different subjects)
- Subject: Re: Apple and Developers (was lots of different subjects)
- From: Ondra Cada <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 13:34:51 +0100
On Sunday, March 24, 2002, at 07:07 , Andrew R. Mitchell wrote:
4) Bring back <insert technology here> - Whether it's EOF, MacApp & ACS,
Dylan, V-Twin, Open Transport Streams, etc., there are technologies that
certain developers find key to their particular area of expertise
I won't point out the other misunderstandings of yours, since they were
repetedly rolled over and over in zillions of similar debates before, but
this one I feel is *VERY* important:
_A flexible database-access API is *NOT* "a technology that certain
developers find key to their particular area of expertise". It is rather a
sine qua non for any environment_.
There is hardly any applications (productivity tools and simple games
aside) which could not *VASTLY* benefit from a database acces. You name it:
spreadsheets, accounting apps, presentations, just pretty close to
whatever should -- and easily could, be the EOF/ObjC here -- be able to
access the database (which might mean a simple flat file for individual
users, a huge dedicated server for big companies).
Of course without database access at all Mac OS X would be dead. That is
not the case: it does offer database access on different levels; alas, the
best of them is a hundred times (not measured of course, just a speech
thing, but a speech of one who -- unlike you -- been there and done that,
both with EOF and without!), well I say a hundred times less convenient
and flexible that EOF has been. Which in turn alas means that instead of
"nearly all applications whose users would profit of db access have them"
(as it would be with EOF) we have and will have much worse situation of
"nearly all applications whose users would buy something other if the app
has not db acess would have them".
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