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Cocoa everywhere?
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Cocoa everywhere?


  • Subject: Cocoa everywhere?
  • From: Danny Frey <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 00:02:16 +0100

Imagine how many more Cocoa apps would get written if they were cross-platform?

iTunes in all it's aqua/brushed aluminium splendour now runs on Windows, what about the rest of us?

I'm not suggesting the porting of Mac OS X for intel - which given NeXT/OpenStep's history is not that far fetched - but how about emulation of the Cocoa frameworks? Sure it might be slower (or maybe not?) but then that would help to not undermine Apple's hardware sales. In that vein Apple could strategically restrict some of it's own apps to only function on Apple hardware.

Technically problematic but given the history of successful emulators running M$ OS's on Mac surely doing something like it the other way round is not impractical?

As a developer I would gladly pay for a licence to do this, could even be another revenue stream for Apple - as if they needed it ;-)

All the best

Danny

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PS. To pre-empt some responses:

I appreciate GnuSteps valiant efforts but they themselves state: "Apple has continued to update this specification in the form of Cocoa and Mac OS X, and there is no hope of GNUstep guaranteeing that we shall maintain compatibility with an Apple API that is constantly changing."

Yeah, I know about Qt from trolltech.
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