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From Win32 to Cocoa: a Windows user's conversion to Mac OS X—Part II | |
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| Time: 07:32 EST/12:32 GMT | News Source: Ars Technica | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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In part one, I described how Apple turned its failure to develop a modern OS into a great success. The purchase of NeXT gave Apple a buzzword-compliant OS with a healthy ecosystem of high-quality third-party applications. Meanwhile, Microsoft was lumbering along with Windows XP. Although technically sound, it was shot through with the decisions made more than a decade earlier for 16-bit Windows. In 2001, when XP was released, this was not such a big deal. The first two or three versions of Mac OS X were troublesome, to say the least. Performance was weak, there were stability issues, and version 10.0 arguably wasn't even feature complete. It wasn't until early 2002 that Apple even made Mac OS X the default OS on new Macs; for the first few months of its life, XP was up against "Classic" Mac OS 9. | ||
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| #1 By 16302 (64.201.211.159) at 5/5/2008 1:51:15 PM |
| This was a useless waste of my time. The author is ill informed and makes a lot of false assumptions and demeans a lot of the audience. Nothing is backed up with evidence. This article doesn't deserve to grace the pages of activewin. I am surprised that part II was even posted given the negative feedback from readers on part I. Do us all a favor and just skip part III. |
| #2 By 72426 (69.109.8.160) at 5/5/2008 7:42:53 PM |
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#1 Agree...
•No concept of what .NET really is, misleading users. •No mention or acknowledgement of WPF/WCF or the new APIs that are set to replace Win32 •Completely misleads users about API concepts and features of OS X compared to Windows, for example XAML/XPS concepts compared to Display Postscript is a massive difference in display technologies that are part of the new Windows API sets, that Carbon or Cocoa cannot provide to developers. Jumps into UI consistency with dialog wording, and doesn't mention OS Xs lack of keyboard support, consistency of Delete/backspace or 100 other things more important than Dialog wording which is also NOT PART of Win32 inherently. Author doesn't realize Microsoft and IBM wrote most of the GUI and UI guidelines that OS X even uses today. Office 2007 is a new direction in GUI paradigms, and is WELL accepted in the business world. Not something to make fun of when OS X is still using old MENU (textual word lists) concepts. Menus were a hack to make features available in a GUI context, but are a draw back to non-graphical UIs. Vista and Office 2007 movijng away from word lists (MENUS) is the right direction, too bad Apple isn't innovating on UI and just keeps throwing the same UI slop at users and telling them it is good. Author also totally ignores Adobe not providing any 64bit support for OS X because Apple dropped the ball on Carbon x64bit support that has been promised forever from Apple. In contrast 64bit development on Windows in both Win32/Win64 and .NET/WPF is easy, transparent and has clear and easy paths for migration. (Let alone OS X is still a hybrid 64bit OS, using 32bit code throughout the OS, unlike Vista x64) So for 'real developers' like Adobe (OS X) is a failure, and has failed paths. Which means if you want a 64bit version of Adobe products, you will have to move to Windows for the peformance and benefits. Oh, how brilliant Apple and OS X is... This brings up the horrid Carbon/Cocoa platforms and migration paths, and even then not even touching on the development tool constrast between the two platforms. I challenge Mr. Bright to a real debate on the topics covered, maybe he can try to justify some of his misleading and outrageous claims. This post was edited by anthonyspt on Monday, May 05, 2008 at 19:49. |
| #3 By 2960 (72.196.195.185) at 5/6/2008 10:54:16 AM |
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"Office 2007 is a new direction in GUI paradigms, and is WELL accepted in the business world."
Hmmm.... Stats please? I guess WE will see when we roll it out to some 23,000 users next year. I'm predicting a training nightmare. TL |
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