Imagine how big Apple would/could be if they embraced open hardware. They do have a moat here. macOS is so bloated, I hate it, but the hardware is just so much better than anything else.
Define big. They're one of the biggest companies in history. You're saying that if they appealed to 1% of the market that already uses Macs... what? And then they have to support these users?
They got Steve Jobs, so it was probably the right decision, but I will wish they'd bought Be instead. It was super fast, instead of the (still!) super slow Nextstep.
I wonder how macOS would've turned out then. For me, the Smalltalk-ness of Objective-C is one of the things that makes it feel so much different than the likes of Windows and Linux. So much of the UX falls naturally out of it that I doubt we'd have ended up anywhere similar otherwise. What could Be have been like?
That's true, and Interface Builder is quite a step up from what I had seen GUIs do before.
Mind you that this (me dabbling around with it) was 2004, with most other GUIs still in stone age, and I think it was developed back in the Nextstep days.
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Mind you that this (me dabbling around with it) was 2004, with most other GUIs still in stone age, and I think it was developed back in the Nextstep days.
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As were Hypercard, Smalltalk and Lisp environments.
Interface Builder was originally a Lisp application, before being acquired by NeXT.
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