RE: Slightly OT
RE: Slightly OT
- Subject: RE: Slightly OT
- From: Jeff Laing <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 10:17:43 +1000
> > Hey, guys, how long do we have to wait for Apple to release a
> > XP version of core Cococa ;-)
>
> If you want CoreFoundation, it's part of Darwin and available today!
> If you want anything more than that, don't expect Apple's
> cooperation. It is not in their best interest to spend engineering
> dollars on Cocoa for WinXP.
I have to say, I've wondered about that. In a predominantly Windows office,
we're all a bit confused as to why Apple left such an enormous time between
announcement and delivery of the Intel systems, given that supposedly "they
work today".
Our best, complely-uninformed-and-totally-scurrilous, guess was that they
haven't absorbed the Wine project yet, which could presumably allow Windows
executables to run natively under OSX without all of the ensuring security
nightmare that having the entire operating system present raises.
Yet, the converse seemed equally likely. If Apple were prepared to forego
some hardware sales, then having the Cocoa frameworks available on XP seemed
like a sensible candidate for another "secret project happening over there
in building 49 that no-one's allowed to go into". What better way to ensure
that your code remains properly portable?
They'd still be making an OSX(lite)-on-XP sale and it seems to me that the
bulk of the beefy goodness in the application frameworks *isnt* tied
exclusively to the "operating system under the hood", unlike Windows, so its
not as tough to do. Yes, carbon-on-osx would be a no-brainer - thats way too
hard. But the aim of Cocoa is to lift application logic away from the metal
as much as possible.
You'd get the thrill of running individual OSX applications on XP, but for
true inter-operability you'd need to buy "real" OSX. Seems like yet another
marketting opportunity that people might pay for. The only issue is
educating the idiot press, to ensure that they didn't report the
deficiencies of OSX(lite)-on-XP as deficiences in OSX (proper).
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