On 10/23/2012 11:28 AM, chris clepper wrote: > 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'.
Hmm, Max and the web were created on NeXTSTEP because it was such a great media environment. There definitely was a shift to consumer side at Apple, but Apple was always much more consumer focused than NeXTSTEP. The base level machine cost $10,000 in 1990! .hc _______________________________________________ GEM-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/gem-dev
