It never happened. It was a total myth. Big tech reigns supreme, and this alone proves the impotence and futility of our current models.
It never happened. It was a total myth. Big tech reigns supreme, and this alone proves the impotence and futility of our current models.
linguae•1w ago
While the Mac ecosystem did get the Omni Group and some other companies who leveraged OpenStep/Cocoa to build great software, the Mac ecosystem was (and still is) dominated by major vendors (e.g., Microsoft and Adobe) shipping very large apps (e.g., Office and the Creative Suite) developed by very large teams.
I believe ease of development, whether through new APIs or through generative AI, isn’t enough. Competitors to entrenched software companies need to deal with network effects, proprietary file formats and protocols, and the “long tail” of features in large software packages that deter users from switching to smaller, less feature-rich applications.