Re: three basic questions
Re: three basic questions
- Subject: Re: three basic questions
- From: Alastair Houghton <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:06:49 +0100
On 24 Oct 2007, at 05:29, Scott Thompson wrote:
I'd feel very confident in conjecturing that, if nothing else, the
Cover Flow control in iTunes is written in Objective-C. Certainly
it is the case that the cross-platform Safari application is
written in Objective-C
I'm not sure that's true, actually. I seem to recall finding that
the Windows version is using C++.
so there is no reason to doubt that Apple has the ability to run
Objective-C on Windows environment.
Indeed, though they aren't showing it right now. But it does look
like the parts of the system for which we have source code are being
maintained on Windows as well; or at least, they haven't actually
deleted the Windows-related code.
(indeed the "Yellow Box for Windows" of the distant past shows that
an Objective-C runtime can be happily hosted in an application
environment on Windows).
Now as to using Xcode for cross platform development...
It'd be nice, but I'm not sure I see a motivation for Apple here.
Sure, we third-party developers would find it easier to write cross-
platform apps that run on Windows. But do they want all the really
cool apps that are available on Mac OS X right now to work on Windows
too? Why would they? They're a feature of the Mac platform. Put
another way: for Apple, attracting developers to the platform is
good, but attracting users is better.
Kind regards,
Alastair.
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http://alastairs-place.net
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