I can put it more succinctly than Chuck by saying that Chuck seems to me to have this right, front-to-back.
Three comments:
1. There was a time when WebObjects fit Apple's business model as did, e.g., the Xserve product. That model changed, a lot, many years ago now. 2. I don't think the current die was cast 5 years ago, I think it was probably cast 10 or more years ago. 3. My reason for yielding to temptation: the best chance for WebObjects to succeed, in my opinion, would have been if it had been spun off from Apple back when customers were willing to put money down for server technology. If one had built a strong company around the technology and then moved the company forward as a solutions provider leveraging the technology, it is plausible that it might have a heartbeat and own a portion of the world today.
Have those proposing to resurrect WebObjects at Apple contemplated what percentage of the current employees, including management, even worked for the company when WebObjects last generated revenue/profit for Apple? Off the cuff, I think their revenue has grown 20-40 fold since that time.
Tom
On Mar 7, 2014, at 8:06 PM, Chuck Hill < email@hidden> wrote:
Unlike iOS and OS X, Apple does not own the server platform. Communication is via standard protocols. And Apple is no longer in the server market. Bringing back WO as a product is NOT going to sell more iPhones. It is NOT going to make more money for
Apple. Making a really good SDK and development tool for iOS IS going to sell more iPhones. Apple may not do what you want, but they are smart! They know a winning business model when they see one. Unfortunately for those who appreciate it, WO just never
had a winning business model. Deal with it.
Chuck
On 2014-03-07, 6:30 PM, "Jonathan Miller" wrote:
It's all about iPhone and iPad sales and one of the things that makes Apple's devices the best is the quantity and quality of the applications in the platform. And the application server is an essential component to many iOS and Mac applications
with the prime example being iTunes.
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