I’ve been mulling this over, and no offense to anybody, but I think the QC mothballing move could be viewed as the latest step in what appears to be an intentional Apple-wide systematic software deprecation. Apple’s recent software — across the board — is in bad shape, everything from iOS 8 to Xcode 6 to their “pro” apps: They're seriously bug-ridden or have been heavily dumbed down in functionality. Why? It's like they’ve revived their archaic past-century mindset of being a "hardware company”, a.k.a. a “gadget” company. They don’t seem to be placing primary effort behind their software anymore, it’s almost an afterthought. Apple's software is what always made them stand head and shoulders above the competition. The hardware is practically a commodity item anymore these days. From a distance can you tell the difference between an iPhone and a Galaxy? It’s the software that is the enabler, it’s the software that the user interacts with and makes (or breaks) the experience, not the “hardware”. But then, Apple should know that already. When QC came out I thought it was the coolest, slickest app I’d ever seen. Wow, I can do so much without knowing any programming, visually! Some genius at Apple was allowed to pursue his dream and the result was brilliant. But now it goes the way of a long list of other “orphaned” but brilliant Apple apps and products, ostensibly so they can focus on ... gadgets? -Carl
On Dec 11, 2014, at 4:03 PM, Roger Bolton <ro...@eskatonia.net> wrote: > I just sent the below to tc...@apple.com > > I urge everyone that earns a living in whole or in part from Quartz Composer > to do the same. Politely explain how your company earns money with Quartz > Composer and urge him to maintain the technology. > > If 30 or 50 of us do this, it will get noticed. > > Roger > CoreMelt > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > > Hi Tim, > > I run a small Software company that sells video plugins for Final Cut Pro X. > We have been successful for seven years and are now expanding. We use > Quartz Composer as a integral part of our software to create our plugins. > Its a great technology and there is a whole community of people in the video > / live visuals / museum and interactive video market that use this technology > to earn money. Facebook also uses it for some of their backend I believe. > > You also use Quartz Composer in many of your own applications to create > interactive graphics. Despite the success of this technology, for some > reason Apple is not allocating any resources to keep Quartz Composer updated > and add new features. Long standing bugs in Quartz Composer have been closed > with the message "Engineering has determined there is no plans to address > this issue". This is very worrying, and I hope its not a sign that you will > remove Quartz Composer from future OS X releases. > > I am urging you to please assign just one engineer full time to fixing long > standing bugs and keeping Quartz Composer updated. It may not be a glamorous > user facing technology, but believe me there is a dedicated community using > this tech and we all want it to stay around. > > Your sincerely, > > Roger Bolton > Director, CoreMelt Pty Ltd > _______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > Quartzcomposer-dev mailing list (Quartzcomposer-dev@lists.apple.com) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/quartzcomposer-dev/newslists%40autonomy.caltech.edu > > This email sent to newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Quartzcomposer-dev mailing list (Quartzcomposer-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/quartzcomposer-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
