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Developer Developments (3/30/01)
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We continue to have fun with Mac OS X, its remaining "issues" notwithstanding. However, while we're still amazed at the way in which Classic does an admirable job of running lots of older software in a pretty darn transparent manner, we find ourselves itching for more software-- native software. Software that uses all that cool lickable Aqua stuff and that doesn't require us to wait for The World's Longest Minute while Classic starts up for the first time. We want Carbon apps. We want Cocoa apps. And while they continue to trickle in at a respectable pace, we still want Apple to crack the whip or offer the bribes or do whatever it needs to do to get us our Mac OS X software faster.
Ain't it a bummer, then, that Apple's vice president of worldwide developer relations just bailed? According to MacCentral, Clent Richardson is vacating Apple's lush, translucent fields in favor of a position at some bigwig UK cellular outfit called One 2 One. Note that this isn't official news, yet, and that MacCentral is citing "industry sources," not Apple's PR department (who refused to comment), but being trusting souls, we see no particular reason to doubt the assertion. What this means is that the guy responsible for getting all those developers to write the applications, drivers, and various other bits of software we need to build a home in Mac OS X is skeedaddling for the cellular world. Just bad timing, or a nasty hint at the state of Mac OS X developer affairs?
We suppose we'd still be riding the angst train if The Register didn't hint that Clent wasn't being all that he could be. One unnamed Apple developer goes so far as to say, "I think [the new guy] would fill Clent's role the way it should be done. Or should I say, the way it should have been done." Verrrry interesting. In that case, perhaps Clent's departure is a good thing-- although, if he really was as ineffective as the unnamed Apple developer implies, then maybe we should be mourning the fact that Apple hadn't replaced him ages ago. Maybe then we wouldn't still be trying to run Photoshop in Classic...
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 3/30/01 episode: March 30, 2001: Could Apple really be trying to ditch the "i" in its product naming convention? Meanwhile, the PowerBook G4 propels Apple to the top of the year over year notebook sales growth charts, even as the company's veep of developer relations prepares to jump ship to work in the wacky world of cellular communications...
Other scenes from that episode: 2958: iDon't Know What To Call It (3/30/01) We fear change, and so these rumors that Apple is looking to jettison its whole iNaming convention fills us with dread. Faithful viewer dzhim informs us that the dirt-digging elves over at Mac OS Rumors claim to have gotten their mitts on "internal Apple documents" indicating that the era of iMacs, iBooks, iTools, iCards, iDisks, iMovie, iTunes, iDVD, iServices, iSchool, etc... 2959: It's A Titanium Happy Fest (3/30/01) We admit it: when the titanium PowerBook G4 first shipped, we were more than a little worried. Yes, it pulled in a truckload of rave reviews, but so did the Cube, and we all know how that went down...
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