Well I was hoping to have a few more days to settle things.
The Smalltalk community should take a deep bow and thank Alan Kay for spending
many hours talking to the highest level of people at Apple about the importance
of the iPad as a platform to teach computational theory to people of all
I've been surprised that I haven't seen any statement from ESUG re:
how these policies negatively impact the future prospects for
Smalltalk on the iPhone/iPad and the investments they've made in the
platform to date that Apple seems willing to wipe out. Wouldn't now
be a good time to try
On Apr 21, 2010, at 10:26 PM, John M McIntosh wrote:
On 2010-04-21, at 1:13 PM, stephane ducasse wrote:
Good!
John in future version it may be good to mention that ESUG supported this VM
work for the iphone.
STef
Yes, I did conduct a magazine interview today where I ensured I did
On Apr 21, 2010, at 10:29 PM, Phil (list) wrote:
I've been surprised that I haven't seen any statement from ESUG re: how these
policies negatively impact the future prospects for Smalltalk on the
iPhone/iPad and the investments they've made in the platform to date that
Apple seems willing
Phil, last week I asked the smalltalk community (ESUG etc), to stay claim and
wait for Apple to think about it based on an email
exchange I had with Steve Jobs. At the time I thought it prudent to wait a
further decision or statement.
Give that Wired publish Alan my thoughts on the matter
John Stephane,
Fair enough and good to know that folks like ESUG will be weighing
in. I think you're on the right track re: gathering vocal support
from the Scratch community that is constructive rather than bashing
Apple, and have mainly been wondering why there wasn't a more
