@David Young: I can't see how these things matter to the end user save for their associations with the brands
Maybe the Cocoa and Core Animation stuff was more for analysts?
I'm not so sure anymore that the closed platform will open up in time -- the iPod still hasn't
I'm not sure how much that tells us. Writing software for an embedded device like the iPod is not usually easy. The reason the iPhone is attractive for developers is because of Cocoa. If Apple never said it ran Mac OS X, I'm not sure we'd have nearly as much discussion about an SDK.
by Scott Stevenson — Jan 15
Maybe the Cocoa and Core Animation stuff was more for analysts?
I'm not so sure anymore that the closed platform will open up in time -- the iPod still hasn't
I'm not sure how much that tells us. Writing software for an embedded device like the iPod is not usually easy. The reason the iPhone is attractive for developers is because of Cocoa. If Apple never said it ran Mac OS X, I'm not sure we'd have nearly as much discussion about an SDK.