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Re: OT: Is used WO 5.3.1 in production (deployment)?
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Re: OT: Is used WO 5.3.1 in production (deployment)?


  • Subject: Re: OT: Is used WO 5.3.1 in production (deployment)?
  • From: Ray Kiddy <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:19:53 -0700


On Apr 23, 2006, at 6:04 PM, Paul D Yu wrote:

Agree. The sales were facilitated by WebObjects as I said in the lines below. But WebObjects does not DRIVE the $1.5 Billion in music and iPod related sales.

Paul


It is true that WebObjects does not drive music sales at Apple. On the other hand, when the iTunes music store was announced, the response was that it came out sooner than people in the industry expected and it was surprisingly elegant for the first version of a new kind of application.


So, what might have happened if Apple did not have people who knew WebObjects to work on the iTunes music store?

If the store came out 6 months or a year later than it did, would the rest of the industry have waited for Apple? Would the press or the market analysts have been forgiving? If the interface to iTunes had looked like a hacked-together, behemoth MFC application, would the industry have cut Apple a break and said that lots of companies do inelegant software and so that must be ok? If the iTunes store had not scaled and if there had been massive problems as we kept adding 0's onto the number of the songs sold, would they have said that was acceptable, everyone has growing pains?

I think that the real reason the iTunes music store works and the reason it succeeds in driving music and iPod sales is that there are some amazingly smart people running gthe iTunes store. Which development tool did they select to use?

- ray

On Apr 23, 2006, at 7:51 PM, Ken Anderson wrote:


On Apr 23, 2006, at 4:06 PM, Paul D. Yu wrote:

How much of the Music sales were a result of WebObjects? Not very much...

Paul,

The iTunes music store is written in WebObjects - so all!

Ken

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