Re: Mike and Ward, what next?

In article <1gxs2w0.s0hg7y1psanp4N%ward@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 ward@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (ward mcfarland) wrote:

> ...lest I sound too negative, I have been recollecting other new
> exciting directions announced at WWDC as THE way of the future.  Some
> took up almost the entire WWDC, a couple took up two successive WWDC's.
> 
> Raise your hand if you recall:
> QuickRing

Nope. Never even heard of that name.


> QuickDrawGX
> OpenDoc (don't get me started on that one)

I recall both of those very well. What I recall is that Apple spent 
_years_ hawking them and got virtually no interest from developers or 
users. I recall historically Mac-hostile publications talking up OpenDoc 
as obviously superior to any other component model being pushed at the 
time. I recall a few developers ****pping QDGX apps in parallel to the 
traditional QD versions but with more features and at a lower cost 
(reflecting the lower development cost) and then killing the GX builds 
in the next release because people weren't buying them. And I recall, 
after years of neglect from anyone outside of Apple and the quite 
reasonable axing of the technologies under those cir***stances, people 
coming out and saying "but I was just going to use that...."


> Copland 

Thankfully dead. Would have been much more disruptive to both users and 
developers than OS X was.


> Yellow Box

Unfortunately dead. Or at least comatose.


> If IBM comes out with a 3 GHz PPC soon, we may see the Intel deal put
> back on the shelf.

Unlikely. It's not about what's available now or what's planned for the 
next twelve months. It's about what's expected for the next 5 years and 
track records on meeting expectations.

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