Re: EOF undead?
Re: EOF undead?
- Subject: Re: EOF undead?
- From: Jay Prince <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 14:17:14 -0700
I think compelling applications driving Mac sales is a better revenue
stream than WWDC. I wouldn't be surprised to find that WWDC is a
break-even proposition.
But this is neither here nor there. EOF is not a new competitive
technology-- its been around for years. Whether it is dead or not is
not something that Apple is going to lose competitive advantage by
revealing to developers. (And if NDAs are really that important, then
give us these kind of high level decisions on the connect.apple.com
website where we have to log in.)
Not talking about new features in future versions of EOF is one thing.
I don't think it makes sense, but I understand it.
Refusing to let us know whether Apple announced the death or
continuation of EOF at WWDC is another. And furthermore, after 12
months of patiently waiting with the product in limbo pending a
decision "real soon now", we're told that we have to wait until the
release of Panther to know whether a decision has even been made or not?
EOF exists, its shipping in WebObjects. It used to be supported under
Objective-C. Either Apple is canceling the Objective-C version,
continuing it, or going to provide an alternative. Telling us which
of these it plans does not give away the store!
After all, anyone foolish enough to have signed the license agreement
allowing distribution of preview versions of their application with
EOF, has had their year run out, and was unable to ship their product
in that time period, and now is left high and dry with a product that
cannot be legally shipped to customers.
Telling people already under NDA we have to wait 6 months to find out
if a decision was even made is just a bad idea.
Jay,
speaking for myself only.
On Wednesday, July 2, 2003, at 01:36 PM, Timothy Ritchey wrote:
Unfortunately, it is very easy to understand. If the information
handed out at WWDC was freely available, there would be little reason
to shell out the time and expense of going. I'm sure Apple has every
intention of maintaining the ADC/WWDC revenue stream.
That being said, consider the costs of developing on Windows. Visual
Studio is a thousand dollar application, and their professional
developer's conference is two thousand dollars. Arguments about tool
quality aside, I would rather have a free development environment, and
wait for an OS release to get information on the APIs. Of course, that
is assuming that xCode will be free...
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