Re: Silly question. Is iTunes Cocoa application?
Re: Silly question. Is iTunes Cocoa application?
- Subject: Re: Silly question. Is iTunes Cocoa application?
- From: Raffael Cavallaro <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 10:21:24 -0500
On Nov 6, 2005, at 3:02 AM, m wrote:
Perhaps because its development preceded the existence of Cocoa.
Not to mention that it needed to run under Mac OS 9.
Bingo. More precisely, iTunes started life as a Mac OS Classic app
called SoundJam MP3 which apple bought and revamped as iTunes. iTunes
is a Carbon app for the same reason that the Finder is Carbon - they
both date from a time when *all* mac apps were what we now call
Carbon - they simply used the only system interfaces available, the
old Mac OS Toolbox routines. These were updated to allow many of them
to be used under Mac OS X and this updated version of the old Mac OS
Toolbox is called Carbon.
To bring this back on topic a bit, Cocoa has a very different history
dating back to Next which didn't arrive at Apple until Apple acquired
Next and Steve Jobs returned to Apple with it. So Cocoa didn't
arrive at Apple early enough for Cocoa to be an option for SoundJam/
iTunes.
Raffael Cavallaro
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