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There is this Jobs interview when he also discusses how there will be a marketplace for objects and people will buy and sell objects instead of software. In on
by omarhaneef 5y ago
There is this Jobs interview when he also discusses how there will be a marketplace for objects and people will buy and sell objects instead of software.
In one sense it failed because all it ever saves you is the typing. You still have to learn the whole model, sometimes it is like learning a programming language from scratch.
On the other hand, it may have succeeded. Objects don't exist in isolation but as a library with other objects and frameworks, and APIs are basically object models. You could think of React or the stripe api as object universes.
What is interesting is that you can't sell a developer product like a commercial products. Developers need access to the code so you either make it open source, and sell consulting, or else you make it a web api and rent it out.
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- amedvednikov 5y agoI've been trying to find that interview. Do you maybe have a link?
- omarhaneef 5y agoI think he has said a few times, almost certainly also mentioned in "the lost interview". He usually says something like: They showed me three things are Xerox Parc, first, the windows mouse graphic interface, second, networked computing and the third thing I didn't notice at the time which is object oriented software. Then he mentions how at Apple they did the first, and the internet is the second. At Next, they are doing the third, and then brings up objects. It was during the NEXT era. Here is the lost interview: https://youtu.be/Jk4dzQs859M https://youtu.be/Jk4dzQs859M But, as I said, I think he has also said it at other places.
- karthiksripal 5y agoMaybe not the exact interview, but I came across this interview from Rollingstone where Jobs was super pumped about Objects oriented programming https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/steve-jobs-in-1994-the-rolling-stone-interview-231132/ https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/steve-jobs...
- tonyedgecombe 5y agoThere was a market for components back in the nineties. People were buying VBX's and OCX's for Visual Basic and Delphi applications. Component Source had a huge catalogue. Open source killed it all.
- atomashpolskiy 5y agoMore generally speaking, markets were killed by oligopolies.
- segmondy 5y agoIt happened, it's called restful APIs