[OT] Re: EOF undead?
[OT] Re: EOF undead?
- Subject: [OT] Re: EOF undead?
- From: j o a r <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 08:34:02 +0200
This whole thread is OT for this list! Cocoa-Dev is going down the
drain because of the low signal-to-noise ratio. Where's the list-mom?
This is Cocoa-Dev "Discussions regarding native Mac OS X application
development using Cocoa frameworks", not Cocoa-Chat "Rants, raves and
rumors about anything and everything Cocoa".
On Thursday, Jul 3, 2003, at 00:55 Europe/Stockholm, Dave Thorup wrote:
I can understand Apple not wanting to make some of the material
available
right away. It gives you some incentive to go to WWDC. But not to
allow
any coverage at all (except the Keynote of course)? To me that's just
silly
paranoia. Who are they trying to hide it from? Microsoft? They're
probably already attending.
No matter how I try to look at it, I think that this silly NDA, with
respect
to WWDC, hurts Apple. There are thousands developers and would-be
developers that would love to learn from WWDC, but we're being left in
the
dark. Sure, I may not be able to apply much of what was covered at
WWDC for
six months. But I would like to learn about it so that I can get
excited
about it and plan on how to include it in my apps.
Apple cannot make things like API changes public until they can commit
to maintaining them for a long, long, long, time (practically forever).
They give dedicated developers a chance to provide feedback before they
finalize things - something we all should be happy about.
If they did make everything public as soon as they could, and later had
to change something or scrap that new plan all together, I can assure
you that people would bitch to no end about this.
We all want to have access to the new stuff immediately, or before
that, but it's just not going to happen. Just relax, it's just a few
months away now. I'm sure you've already got enough bugs to fix and
features to implement in your current applications to keep you busy
until then?
j o a r
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