Re: How viable is Cocoa development?

FROM : Bob Savage
DATE : Sat Jan 26 06:31:04 2002

on 1/25/02 10:50 PM, Erik M. Buck at <email_removed> wrote:

>> the problem with GX, as Gregory mentions above, was not that GX
>> was lousy technology, it was that developers didn't adopt the
>> new technology. That is what killed GX.
>
> And how is that different from Cocoa within Apple ?

Yes. That was my point. It is not up to Apple to make Cocoa a success any
more; it is up to developers to adopt it.

One big difference between Cocoa and OpenDoc and GX, that your comment
obscures, however, is that Cocoa is an integrated part of MacoSX. OpenDoc
and GX were always an optional install. They were going to become required
in the Copland time frame. Apple would have a much harder time simply
dropping Cocoa from the next release of MacOSX.

Bob