[GEM-dev] [ pd-gem-Bugs-3517368 ] gem 0.93 does not play .mpg files on Mac OS X

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On 10/23/2012 11:28 AM, chris clepper wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> You've captured the problem with Apple these days in a nutshell.  Seems
>> like
>> they are going Final Cut X on everything, or worse: its all about selling
>> stuff in iTunes, and everything takes a back seat to that.
>>
>> After using NeXTSTEP/Mac OS X as my primary OS since 1995 (I was that weird
>> guy with a NeXTSTEP/i386 box at work in 1998), I will never upgrade past
>> Mac
>> OS X 10.6, and these days I'm in Linux Mint 80-90% of the time.
>>
>> But ultimately, while I'm sad to see NeXTSTEP end like this, I'm happy
>> Apple
>> is going this route because that means they will drive away the people with
>> skills, and send them to free software :)  I'm planning on getting
>> involved in
>> etoile/GNUstep to help build a better NeXTSTEP that is also free.
>>
> 
> Not to get too sidetracked, but it was the Nexties that killed off
> Quicktime because they did not understand the  first thing about media
> arts.  After the Jobs/Next reverse takeover of Apple the shift was from art
> to industrial design (and consumer marketing).  It was a constant source of
> frustration for the people working on what was previously Apple's core
> market.  I heard repeatedly from those people at Apple that 'management
> doesn't get art'.

Hmm, Max and the web were created on NeXTSTEP because it was such a great
media environment.  There definitely was a shift to consumer side at Apple,
but Apple was always much more consumer focused than NeXTSTEP.  The base level
machine cost $10,000 in 1990!

.hc