On 24 Apr 2006, at 17:19, Ray Kiddy wrote:
It is true that WebObjects does not drive music sales at Apple. On
the other hand, when the iTunes music store was announced, the
response was that it came out sooner than people in the industry
expected and it was surprisingly elegant for the first version of a
new kind of application.
So, what might have happened if Apple did not have people who knew
WebObjects to work on the iTunes music store?
If the store came out 6 months or a year later than it did, would
the rest of the industry have waited for Apple? Would the press or
the market analysts have been forgiving? If the interface to iTunes
had looked like a hacked-together, behemoth MFC application, would
the industry have cut Apple a break and said that lots of companies
do inelegant software and so that must be ok? If the iTunes store
had not scaled and if there had been massive problems as we kept
adding 0's onto the number of the songs sold, would they have said
that was acceptable, everyone has growing pains?
I think that the real reason the iTunes music store works and the
reason it succeeds in driving music and iPod sales is that there
are some amazingly smart people running gthe iTunes store. Which
development tool did they select to use?
Hmm. I have this brilliant idea for a role for WebObjects...
Let's call it "Mission Critical Custom Applications". Of course,
we'd have to think up some new way to sell such an innovative concept.
Paul (I'm English, we have automatic sarcasm tags)
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