Re: TrollTech releases QT for Mac under GPL
Re: TrollTech releases QT for Mac under GPL
- Subject: Re: TrollTech releases QT for Mac under GPL
- From: Robert Palmer <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 18:49:33 -0400
What you are missing is that Apple is, first and foremost, a HARDWARE
company. The software is there to sell the HARDWARE (iDVD is a prime
example - you can only use iDVD if you have an internal DVD writer).
If apple were to license YB, that would only promote the competitors
hardware.
Now, that said - the scene is changing a bit - iPODs are hardware for
both platforms. It would make business sense for Apple to release a
framework that allowed developers produce products that would integrate
nicely with the iPOD. Oh, yeah, they have already started - they
released APIs and sources for Rendevous, for ANY platform, and they
released reference designs for Firewire, etc.
Apple will release cross platform development environments only if it
promotes their hardware. Remember, Apple is a hardware company.
Robert Palmer, Jr
email@hidden
On Saturday, June 21, 2003, at 03:41 PM, Jeff Harrell wrote:
On Saturday, June 21, 2003, at 02:38 PM, Marcel Weiher wrote:
Not going to happen. When Apple made the promise of YB/Win, I never
could figure out what the business case for that, apart from a sudden
urge to satisfy suicidal tendencies.
Uh. The business case is to allow Apple and Apple developers to write
applications that can be deployed on Windows, and to give Windows
developers an API through which they can write applications that can
be deployed on the Mac.
The first one is key for things like iTunes, and the second one is
good for everybody. Windows programmers get a better toolkit, and Mac
users get the benefit of more applications.
The business case seems clear. What am I missing?
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http://homepage.mac.com/jharrell
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