Re:What to Do When You Get Sherlocked by Apple
by buserror on Saturday October 12, 2019 @03:45PM
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I also got sherlocked around 15 years ago. At the time I was working for a music company, and I was in very close loop with apple CoreAudio and CoreMIDI guys. I had (still have) a whole bunch of apple employees or ex- as friends.
Rather enthusiastically I was advocating, and filing bugs to allow me to ship a side project I had been working on for quite a while: A way to network MIDI devices on OSX. Multicast, very low latency, auto-discovery etc. I basically entirely trusted them with all the ideas, thinking it wasn't something they would need, or care, to ship in OSX at any time in the future because it was so niche.
I was wrong, next major OSX version, they had it -- in a more primitive way than my product -- but they had it.
I that point I had been a mac developer, one of the old school, since 1985 or so. And I literally dropped tools and decided to do something else entirely.
Now I still use a Hackintosh mostly for a few programs I still cary on using, but my work has entirely shifted away from Apple.
Rather enthusiastically I was advocating, and filing bugs to allow me to ship a side project I had been working on for quite a while: A way to network MIDI devices on OSX. Multicast, very low latency, auto-discovery etc. I basically entirely trusted them with all the ideas, thinking it wasn't something they would need, or care, to ship in OSX at any time in the future because it was so niche.
I was wrong, next major OSX version, they had it -- in a more primitive way than my product -- but they had it.
I that point I had been a mac developer, one of the old school, since 1985 or so. And I literally dropped tools and decided to do something else entirely.
Now I still use a Hackintosh mostly for a few programs I still cary on using, but my work has entirely shifted away from Apple.