> Truthfully, if Adobe and Microsoft hadn't insisted on Carbon[2], the Mac would have been much better off. It wasn't just them. Pretty much nobody wanted to w

> Truthfully, if Adobe and Microsoft hadn't insisted on Carbon[2], the Mac would have been much better off. It wasn't just them. Pretty much nobody wanted to write two different versions of their apps. You would have had a negative feedback loop. Users wouldn't upgrade to Mac OS X because most of their apps weren't native, so everything would run in Classic, which was just as crashy as MacOS 9 but slower. Then developers would hold off on porting their apps to Cocoa, because hardly anyone was running OS X. So the 9 to X transition would have taken much longer.