| Weblog: | H.264 is Amazing | |
| Subject: | Dog food | |
| Date: | 2005-04-30 12:09:52 | |
| From: | jharrell | |
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It's worth pointing out that the new QuickTime Player has been completely re-written in Cocoa and the new QT Kit framework. The QuickTime 6 player was a Carbon application that used the older QuickTime API.
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2005-04-30 13:02:03 brianimator2 [View]
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2005-04-30 21:40:09 joshuawait [View]
If you google the phrase "eating your own dog food" you find numerous references to it that have nothing to do with the Mac and everything to do with software development. -
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2005-04-30 14:41:12 ciparis [View]
That is not a direct quote, or even an indirect one. Eating your own dog food is a commonly applied term when talking about a company building products in its own new tools and APIs. You'll hear more of it, accusing them all of lifting the idea is silly.
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From TFA: (in talking about QuickTime)
"When Carbon was first being developed, Apple chose to base one of its "important" applications on the new API to prove its usefulness: the Finder. In the software industry, this is poetically called "eating your own dog food." Any long-time Mac OS X user knows how things turned out in the case of the Finder, but the dog food concept itself is a sound one."
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars/16