On Apr 29, 2010, at 10:43 AM, Mark Munz wrote: > Actually, I do take it personally because my livelihood depends on > Apple's decisions. I worked for a 3rd party developer in the Apple II > days when Apple was shunning its cash cow (Apple II) in favor of its > new sweetheart (Mac).
When they came for us Carbon developers people literally cheered. I very much remember the same excuses coming from the same people. > Now, I think the iPhone/iPad are great opportunities for new and > interesting solutions, but they cannot replace the desktop. Try > developing your iPad app on an iPad. Yea I work on a 3rd party programming language - ha. We will never, ever, ever know what Apple is going to do and they are never, ever, ever going to tell us. I'm reminded when the 10.5 GM went out a week early to the PRESS and not developers. We had spent many years and many thousands of dollars to be ready and when it finally showed up it took us an additional 6 months to work with what was actually released. Apple won't be back at MacWorld because they don't own and control MacWorld. They are going to continue to dilute the Mac offerings as much as possible until they can put it behind a pay wall: Make no mistake - Apple doesn't make any direct income from the Downloads page, unlike the unlimited shelf space in the AppStore. Apple is big enough that they can implement themselves any product that threatens to infringe on their internal freedoms. Office, Photoshop, the old video and audio editing software, all now replaced with Apple products. I can name half a dozen technologies they usurped and abandoned... Sherlock? Konfabulator? They like shiny new things. We started researching our future years ago (WWDC 07) and if you are looking for an alternative that will never make any move you don't know about, an OS where you not only literally own it, but you can pretty easily build it yourself because you have complete and unfettered access to the sources. It's still growing, not quite ready for the average user, but I believe it will get there sooner than later. Oh yes, everything is also free. Check out Haiku! <http:.//www.haiku-os.org/> More later, Jack
