> It really bugs me that apple makes these "nobody would ever want" proclamations and then reverses itself without saying, "we goofed".
Apple doesn't like to tell people what it's doing. So if they say "We're not doing X", it might mean they're not doing it. Or, it might mean that they are doing it, and don't want anybody to know yet.
With the iPod Video, they ixnayed it in public up to a few weeks before they released it.
In the case of the App Store, it seems pretty obvious that Apple intended to let developers write apps for it, but the APIs weren't stable enough to have 3rd party developer depend on them. So they stalled for a year, depending on superior hardware to keep momentum going until the OS settled down some.
Apple doesn't like to tell people what it's doing. So if they say "We're not doing X", it might mean they're not doing it. Or, it might mean that they are doing it, and don't want anybody to know yet.
With the iPod Video, they ixnayed it in public up to a few weeks before they released it.
In the case of the App Store, it seems pretty obvious that Apple intended to let developers write apps for it, but the APIs weren't stable enough to have 3rd party developer depend on them. So they stalled for a year, depending on superior hardware to keep momentum going until the OS settled down some.