On 10/23/2012 11:28 AM, chris clepper wrote:
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@at.or.atwrote:
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