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Can someone help me understand why the poster's first requirement is that this be a Cocoa app? Honest question; it's just tossed out there as though it were ob
by Vivtek 17y ago
Can someone help me understand why the poster's first requirement is that this be a Cocoa app? Honest question; it's just tossed out there as though it were obvious and I have no idea why.
- Niccodes 17y agoBrent Simmonds is a Mac developer and there's been a discussion about the Mac email client landscape brewing for a while. The Coccoa requirement is due to the unstated context that we're talking about an email client for Mac OS X. By shipping Mail with every Mac, Apple basically makes it impossible for someone else to come along and compete with a commercial product. Thunderbird, while a fantastic piece of work, doesn't behave quite like a Mac-native application. By saying it's got to be Coccoa, Brent's saying it has to be through-and-though Mac-like.