On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:hans@at.or.at" target="_blank">hans@at.or.at</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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</div>You&#39;ve captured the problem with Apple these days in a nutshell.  Seems like<br>
they are going Final Cut X on everything, or worse: its all about selling<br>
stuff in iTunes, and everything takes a back seat to that.<br>
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After using NeXTSTEP/Mac OS X as my primary OS since 1995 (I was that weird<br>
guy with a NeXTSTEP/i386 box at work in 1998), I will never upgrade past Mac<br>
OS X 10.6, and these days I&#39;m in Linux Mint 80-90% of the time.<br>
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But ultimately, while I&#39;m sad to see NeXTSTEP end like this, I&#39;m happy Apple<br>
is going this route because that means they will drive away the people with<br>
skills, and send them to free software :)  I&#39;m planning on getting involved in<br>
etoile/GNUstep to help build a better NeXTSTEP that is also free.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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&#39;s core market.  I heard repeatedly from those people at Apple that &#39;management doesn&#39;t get art&#39;.  </div>
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