| I contracted directly with Apple in the mid-90's, and continued Mac development for 3rd parties (and yes, sometimes on free machines they had received from Apple as incentive) till the end of the old Mac OS era, around 2000. They were still trying to win the battle for 3rd party support from M$ at the time. I'm out of it now, but I would still think the Pro Apps division ("Creative Content" they called it then) is relevant to them. For instance, what if a major publisher of Photoshop plugins only shipped on Windows? I would think Steve Jobs himself would fire at will just searching for the arsehole responsible for not winning their support. At least, that's how I remember things.
I would think a lot of this has to do with the Germany thing...there's no coordination and the Germans don't own the AU standard, but they own the app...and they are struggling just to get the basic app running...and there's no one in charge or paying attention in Cupertino... |