Please please please... Someone went as far as asking for support by talking to an Apple Senior VP, and the answer was: NO! Stop thinking that Apple will help us after 5 years without any help from Apple. They even stopped contributing to Wonder 3 years ago.
Envoyé de mon iPhone > Le 2014-03-07 à 17:59, Mark Wardle <m...@wardle.org> a écrit : > > Hi all. > > It is sad to hear the despondency permeating through the email list today. > > I think many of us have achieved so much with this technology stack, > solutions that would be much more difficult with other technologies. > > I think Apple is missing a trick here. Perhaps I am naive but isn’t their > focus on vertical integration? WebObjects is and could be the server side > answer for iOS in the enterprise. For me, we’re just about to deploy our > first iOS apps running on iPads in our outpatient clinics, linking to our > WebObjects applications handling all of the complex business logic that we > need in healthcare. We’ve achieved this on a shoestring and it’s due to the > great design - seen in WebObjects and of course, by logical extension in the > related frameworks inherited from NeXT in modern Apple operating systems. > > Personally, I want Apple stuff in the enterprise - in my enterprise - in my > outpatient clinic. I think it would make a tremendous difference to how we > provide healthcare. WebObjects is such a good fit for iOS devices I just > cannot believe that Apple does not want to support such a great and > productive technology. > > Whatever the case, my WebObjects applications are still running and we are > getting more and more users here in this part of the UK! It is just a shame > Apple seems to have given up on it. > > I’ve copied in Tim Cook to this. At the back of my mind, I’m hoping he’ll > take an interest, realise overnight what a great technology this is and how > it can be a great product for both large and small enterprises, can form part > of a great technology stack and support iOS, and as such, re-incarnate > WebObjects - the technology we love! Mr Cook - could Apple un-deprecate this > technology please? It is really rather good! > > Best wishes, > > Mark > > -- > Dr. Mark Wardle > Consultant Neurologist, University Hospital Wales, Cardiff, UK > Email: mark.war...@wales.nhs.uk or m...@wardle.org Twitter: @mwardle > Telephone: 02920745274 (secretary) or facsimile: 02920744166 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/probert%40macti.ca > > This email sent to prob...@macti.ca
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