![]() Subtracted points for bitching hypocritically about Apple during your concession speech. In order to qualify as an Audigone, something must be:Ģ) confronted with a rival Apple product.Īdded points for going out with a spirited fight. So, despite the fact that it’s not my word, I am hereby defining ‘the Audigone’. The entertaining history of Audion makes me wonder how many other inspiration stories there are out there of…uh, Apple mercilessly crushing its independent developers. The made-up word ‘Audigone,’ according to timestamps, was first used in this Forward Address: OS X post, as a way of describing the cancellation of Panic‘s commercial MP3-playing application Audion in the face of competition from Apple’s free iTunes. Author Andrew Pontious Posted on NovemJanuCategories Programming & Tech Tags Audigones, From Old Helpful Tiger Blog Audigones Contrast that with other utilities I classify as almost-Audigone because they’re still technically supported, but “support” means at most doing a dot update for each new OS release. Now, it’s interesting to note, Watson was cancelled because, to keep up with the outside service providers, Dan Wood would have had to spend ongoing effort updating Watson. The other good news is that Karelia is apparently working on something new. ![]() The bad news is that Sun appears to be sitting on the technology, so a new cross-platform product based on it may not appear soon. The partial good news is that Dan Wood was able to get some money for the technology from Sun. See this 9/02 O’Reilly interview with chief architect Dan Wood for details. Watson is the real deal: sold for money, confronted with new features in Sherlock 3 (10.2 Jaguar) that did similar things for free, and now cancelled. A false generalization? Has Apple really not slain dozens and dozens of companies? Or have I just not reached the right people to tell the tales?Īnd hey: anybody want a button? Author Andrew Pontious Posted on MaCategories Programming & Tech Tags Audigones, From Old Helpful Tiger Blog An Elementary Audigone: WatsonĪs noted in the comments of my first Audigone post, I forgot a very prominent Audigone, Karelia Software‘s Watson. Certainly I haven’t received an avalanche of Audigone stories, obscure or otherwise. It is available at my site, .Īddendum: Yes, it occurred to me when I started writing about Audigones that I had invented a category especially for my own experience. Now, as stated above, I’m sending NetBuild where it seems many commercial projects go to die, the heaven of Open Source. We closed down the Web site without having made a single sale. It was based on distcc, as it turned out, and anecdotal evidence suggested that our system was more efficient, but we could see the writing on the wall. Then came WWDC….Īt WWDC, Apple introduce Xcode 1.0, and one of its featured was a distributed build system. We didn’t show up in the ADC newsletter, we didn’t hear from anyone. At first, our ADC request seemed to be going fine. It was when we tried to arrange the latter that we realized something was up. We planned to hand out buttons made with the graphic you see above at MacHack 2003, and get our product listed in ADC News. A good bit of the writing for the Web site, which my designer friend Mark Abrams half-jokingly said looked like it had been put together by a college student.īut finally we were ready to go, under the company name “Distributed Experts”. A Preferences plug-in to allow users to turn compiling on and off. A PackageMaker-based installer with a lot of bash shell script custom logic (PackageMaker really sucks, by the way). He deserves the credit for getting the system up and running. Mac did the heavy lifting for our cc replacement, called nbcc, and the Rendezvous mechanism. Oh, and we were going to sell it for $450 a seat. ![]() But our version would use Rendezvous to build and maintain its list of helper machines dynamically and would work seamlessly with Project Builder. Windows has several commercial distributed-compilation products, and there is an open-source utility, distcc, as well. Why not, he thought, replace the cc executable used by Xcode with our own pass-through utility, which would distribute the individual file to a network of machines for compilation? It took forever to compile large-scale C++ projects, even on the fastest Macintosh hardware. In early 2003, my then-coworker Mac Murrett saw that Xcode had a problem. My foray into Audigone territory was not a solo one, nor was it even my idea. It’s taken me longer than I would like, but I have finally gotten around to releasing my Audigone as Open Source.
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