I love the Mac, too, but My perception--without any true or firm numbers, of
course--is that Apple may be having trouble drawing a larger following, though,
with their traditional Mac OS X offerings. iOS provides an opportunity to take
the market by storm: a controlled but "hot" market with a mind-bogglingly large
amount of content and a modern technology--and more abstraction out of files,
thus making the system a little less fallible in some ways. iOS is the next
generation of Apple's focus, I am convinced. I'm not too pleased that my
current programming offerings, which are Mac-only--and most of which, if not
all of which, will not translate over to iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad--but even so,
it seems to me to be the future.
Best,
Andrew
On Jun 9, 2010, at 2:21 PM, Duncan Wilcox wrote:
> We all love the mac, and will continue to use it as long as it makes sense.
> To those who will continue to use it after it makes sense, well there are
> many Amiga fans around as well.
>
> I'm at WWDC, and my point of view is that it was in Apple's best interest to
> propel development of iPhone and iPad apps. And since Apple, well, makes the
> Mac, isn't that our best interest as well?
>
> Additionally, what good did it do to receive Snow Leopard a year early? I'm
> hoping for a much more OSX focused WWDC next year, when at the end of the now
> normal two year development cycle 10.7 is likely to ship.
>
> Now if nothing OSX related appears in a year I'll be the first to bitch, but
> right now there's more mac users than ever, and comparatively fewer
> developers. What's not to like?
>
> Duncan
>
>
> On Jun 9, 2010, at 12:02 PM, Jack Small wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jun 9, 2010, at 9:05 AM, broadreachsoftwarellc wrote:
>>> http://9to5mac.com/node/17663
>>> http://www.newsweek.com/blogs/techtonic-shifts/2010/06/08/does-apple-s-iphone-4-signal-the-death-of-the-macintosh.html
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>
>> Steve Jobs didn't say the word "Mac" once during the WWDC 2010
>> keynote. The Mac OS is deprecated history. I bet that within a year
>> they will release $99 iOS for Mac. He will bring Parallels on stage
>> and show how, using virtualization, you could install any "old" OS if
>> you really need to including 10.6 Server.
>>
>> We're all Carbon developers now.
>>
>> More later,
>> Jack
>>
>>
>
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