On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > You've captured the problem with Apple these days in a nutshell. Seems > like > they are going Final Cut X on everything, or worse: its all about selling > stuff in iTunes, and everything takes a back seat to that. > > After using NeXTSTEP/Mac OS X as my primary OS since 1995 (I was that weird > guy with a NeXTSTEP/i386 box at work in 1998), I will never upgrade past > Mac > OS X 10.6, and these days I'm in Linux Mint 80-90% of the time. > > But ultimately, while I'm sad to see NeXTSTEP end like this, I'm happy > Apple > is going this route because that means they will drive away the people with > skills, and send them to free software :) I'm planning on getting > involved in > etoile/GNUstep to help build a better NeXTSTEP that is also free. > Not to get too sidetracked, but it was the Nexties that killed off Quicktime because they did not understand the first thing about media arts. After the Jobs/Next reverse takeover of Apple the shift was from art to industrial design (and consumer marketing). It was a constant source of frustration for the people working on what was previously Apple's core market. I heard repeatedly from those people at Apple that 'management doesn't get art'.
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