Re:Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months
by danieldk on Friday August 23, 2013 @02:33PM
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The Cocoa API is pretty well thought out, generally well-documented, and pretty well-engineered.
I agree, their APIs are generally very nice. But the last few releases of OS X haven't been great. Multi-monitor support will finally be fixed in 10.9, after having been broken in 10.7 and 10.8. Also, recent releases have become very slow. A 2009 Mac Mini running 10.8 is unbearably slow, while the same machine is on 10.6 is almost as fast as a recent machine machine with a SSD on 10.8.
Re:Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months
by scholia on Friday August 23, 2013 @07:30PM
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Apple didn't invent Cocoa, it was bought in with NextStep to replace Apple's failing Copland development.
And along with NextStep, Apple got its new iCEO, its new head of hardware, and its new head of software ;-)
Where they fail is web services. Apple cannot engineer a decent web service to save their sorry lives. The Cocoa API is pretty well thought out, generally well-documented, and pretty well-engineered.
Then you get into things where you have to talk to Apple via a network. StoreKit? [shudder]. iCloud? [terrified scream]. iMessage? Oh lord.