.... and nowhere did I make the claim that apple is still focussing on Mac OS X as much if not more than iOS. On the contrary, I even mentioned I was annoyed at the lack of momentum.
However, some hyperbole lovers claimed mac os x was now "abandonware", and when people say silly things I feel compelled to call them on it. On Jun 8, 9:08 pm, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 6/8/10 20:56 , Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: > > > > > Microsoft isn't abandoning .NET as far as I know. They DID abandon > > making .NET the base language for their OS. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back > > then, when Vista was still called Longhorn, the idea was for > > Windows to be a C kernel that basically ran .NET directly. Just > > like OS X is basically a C core that runs Objective C directly. > > > That's NOT what happened - microsoft abandoned longhorn and all it > > stood for; the main language for writing apps on windows remains > > C+ +; .NET is a light veneer on top of this, not much different > > from java. > > > Someone made the claim that apple isn't innovating on os x anymore. > > I mentioned the longhorn debacle to show that the opposite is > > true, because apple DID go through with THEIR longhorn: When OS X > > came out, most apps were developed with carbon, including apple's > > own. Now, carbon is deprecated and on its way out, and the primary > > dev language for mac os x apps is cocoa. Objective C is closer to > > java than C++, in case you were wondering. > > Of course, everything is questionable here, Reiner. :-) For instance, > you're mixing the concept of a language used to write an o.s. with the > one used to write application for it; and ObjC is very far from C++, > of course, but very far from Java too, both as a language and both as > being an old thing that compiles directly to native code. > > Anyway, this is completely irrelevant to the original topic - the > poster was asserting that most of the focus of Apple is now on iOS > rather than Mac OS X. I suppose it's just a matter of counting the > tracks at WWDC to get the point, not to speak about how long Jobs is > giving in his keynotes to the iStuff rather than Mac OS X in the > latest two years. > > - -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici -www.tidalwave.it/people > [email protected] > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAkwOlSQACgkQeDweFqgUGxdLHQCfR32xZ0DSrHifsUF8kgtz3TQ4 > +6MAmwWTwS3ZC1CXEzsAmorb6jOiYDaP > =5yZe > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
