Re: Cocoa/Windows parallel dvlpmt

[Nicolas Roard]

On 2004-02-04 15:29:46 +0000 Chris Hanson <cmh@mac.com> wrote:

> On Feb 4, 2004, at 8:28 AM, Nicolas Roard wrote:
> > One thing that amazed me is that people don't seem to care about the 
> > fact 
> > that your
> > beloved Cocoa (or OSX for that matters) could very well be thrown by 
> > Apple 
> > (or
> > simply, Apple could just go out of business).
>
> Apple's primary API for Mac OS X going forward is Cocoa.  They're not 
> going 
> to throw it out.  Every new Mac OS X application coming out of Apple 
> is built 
> using Cocoa.  Most of their new technologies are implemented in Cocoa 
> first.
>
> Also, Apple's not going to "just go out of business."  They're 
> profitable and 
> they have an extremely strong cash position for their size and burn 
> rate.  If 
> you understand business, you'll see that it means they're going to be 
> around 
> for a while.

Sure. And frankly, I hope Apple will stay healthy and gain market 
shares... I really
like what they actually are doing, and I think they could get a huge 
success soon.

_but_ , my remarks aren't unfounded anyway. It's still the risk with 
proprietary
software -- you could lose it. You don't know what will happens.

Anyway, my remark was just that, as GNUstep isn't _that_ far from 
beeing a good,
real, alternative, it could be a good idea to try it and perhaps help 
the development
if you can ... instead of just moaning about its current speculated 
state.

And of course stating that "GNUstep is not going to give me a 
comparable
"ease-of-development" as Cocoa/AppKit, or even half as easy" is imho 
very wrong,
that's why I originally answered.

--
Nicolas Roard