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I'm Cuckoo for Cocoa Apps

Oct 27, 08 - 01:22 pm Comment from: ron

Some like it hot - cocoa that is.

Oct 27, 08 - 01:25 pm Comment from: HolyMackerel

That would explain Apple's delay of Leopard by pulling engineers off Leopard and putting them on the iPhone.

When the iTablet is released in January 09 (as rumoured) will it be considered an iPhone or a Mac?!

I want some hot chocolate!!
If it's not hot enough I'll throw it on the floor!

Oct 27, 08 - 01:52 pm Comment from: Mac-nugget

This forward think on Apple's part is what keeps them moving at this accelerated pace. They did risk a lot, first to change OS and slowly killing legacy compatibility with OS9. They again risked a lot from migrating to a deferent processor architecture (PPC to Intel).

Both moves have been bold and incurred a lot of risk, but now, with Snow Leopard we will see even more gains as far as what this article states. Better code, cleaner to maintain and very optimized.

Apple is setting it self for the "what is next" revolution, and somehow I don't think this vision includes BIG ASS TABLES.

Oct 27, 08 - 01:52 pm Comment from: Macromancer

Does that mean it isn't going to hang as badly as it does now?

The important aspect of this is that the newly Cocoa-fied apps will also be 64 bit. That and resolution independence will keep Mac OS-X ahead of anything MS can offer for he next few years.

@ HolyMackerel

This has nothing to do with the (short) delay of Leopard, nor the iPhone which has a completely different (and 100% cocoa) GUI.

You'll throw it on the floor?

Oct 27, 08 - 02:14 pm Comment from: UltraVisitor

That's what's up.

I wonder how much if any of the Snow Leopard changes are going to make it to Leopard. I think changes that can benefit PPC users should be included in updates to Leopard (such as Open CL). Leopard will still be widely because it is universal, snow leopard will be prefered because of how streamlined it is without all that legacy support, and both will should have identical GUI and user end features.

Microsoft just announced that Windows 7 will be rewrite using "coffee"...

Snow Leopard won't run on PPC

Oct 27, 08 - 03:37 pm Comment from: effwerd

Finally fixing the Finder? Well, that only took seven years.

@ Uncle Daddy

Your not hot enough chocolate won't get any hotter by throwing it on the floor. Put it into the microwave instead.

......did somebody say 'cokified'.....*sniff*.......?

Oct 27, 08 - 07:17 pm Comment from: The Great Microsoft Shiller Massacre

There will be no iTablet.. not now, not ever.

Oct 28, 08 - 03:37 am Comment from: ken1w

> That would explain Apple's delay of Leopard by pulling engineers off Leopard and putting them on the iPhone.

I think that was just a PR ploy. Apple delayed Leopard because it could. It could because Vista's mediocre (at best) launch was zero threat to Apple. Vista's flop was, in fact, a huge benefit and Apple could justify delaying Leopard (with little financial impact) to ensure it was as good and complete as possible at launch. The "delayed due to iPhone excuse" was typically great PR, because it gave even more media attention to the iPhone's launch.

I reality, it would take more time and effort to get Mac OS X engineers up to snuff on iPhone then would be gained by having those extra engineers added to the project for six months. The fact that they all use Cocoa is not really relevant.

"In just a year, Apple's smartphone has effectively increased the installed base of its Cocoa systems from the roughly 20 million Macs running Mac OS X to more than 30 million devices in total."

-- 20 mil? They've been saying that for years. That would suggest that Apple has been losing users as fast as they've been gaining them - not to mention all the older systems out there. I myself have 10 macs at home, 6 of which are running OS X.