On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Ron Garret <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ron@flownet.com">ron@flownet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style=""><br><div><div class="im"><div>On Oct 21, 2010, at 10:24 AM, Alexander Repenning wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style=""><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 16px;"><div>
I wonder if a CCL app would be OK? Anybody cares to speculate? I would assume so.</div></span></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div class="im">I would predict not.<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br> I don't know, it doesn't run afoul of the rules listed, and perhaps more to the point the rule against iOS apps written in non-approved languages was rescinded after public protest. So while we know Apple feels perfectly free to change the rules at any time, I think they will think twice before issuing a language restriction again.<br>
</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style=""><div><div>In fact, I'll go out even further on my limb and predict that OS X itself will be deprecated within five years. Of course, it won't be officially announced as being deprecated the way Java was. But some day in the not too distant future Apple will Announce the bastard stepchild of OS X and iOS (I'll call it OS/X LOLCat), and it will look a lot more like iOS than it does OSX. In particular, it will be a closed system. No more finder. No more terminal. Only the launcher and the app store. For a while you will be able to run legacy apps in a backwards-compatibility mode (anyone remember "Classic"?) but eventually that will go away too.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I could be wrong. I hope I am. But I don't see any other way these tea leaves could be read. Jobs has telegraphed his intentions pretty clearly.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Interesting comment, and I half agree. I think you will be able to buy iOS for the Mac, and it will be as you describe, and it will account for the bulk of their sales. But they can't stop selling MacOS entirely. How would anyone develop apps???<br>
<br>-- Scott<br><br></div></div>