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Re: Cocoa's Popularity
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Re: Cocoa's Popularity


  • Subject: Re: Cocoa's Popularity
  • From: Gregory Weston <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 17:02:16 -0500

On Saturday, March 23, 2002, at 05:47 PM, Mike wrote:

[A nice little rant about how much of Apple's culture and products have changed
since Steve Jobs came back, wrapping up with...]

> 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.

Funny. Most of the NeXT-branded systems I've seen had internal floppy drives.
They weren't there in the Cubes, but from what I've seen they were standard
equipment on the NeXTStation. And that divergence from reality makes me question
the validity and intent of the whole post.

G
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