Re: Thoughts on ARC
Re: Thoughts on ARC
- Subject: Re: Thoughts on ARC
- From: Jens Alfke via Cocoa-dev <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 12:21:44 -0700
> On Sep 27, 2019, at 9:20 AM, Richard Charles via Cocoa-dev
> <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> What I wish Apple would do is release a cross platform Objective-C (and
> Swift) solution. ...
> The Mac vs Windows war is over and long gone so why doesn’t Apple help out
> the small developer and release a cross platform solution.
[OT]
I was typing a lengthy answer, but it occurred to me it's basically the same
reason why Apple didn't release macOS for generic PCs ('hackintoshes') and in
fact actively made it difficult for anyone to port macOS. It's because it would
damage or tank their hardware business. To a lesser degree, if it's just apps
being ported and not the whole OS, but still significant I think.
Porting your software crown jewels to run on commodity PC hardware is something
only a failing company does, when it's throwing its own hardware business
overboard. Consider NeXT and Be. (And I believe Amiga was planning something
similar before they went under.)
Anyway, these days Windows is only for cash registers, accountants, and
basement-dwelling hardcore gamers. ;-)
—Jens
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