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Motorola Shutting Down 280 Slides

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Re: Motorola Shutting Down 280 Slides

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Post by RandallBrown »

I wonder what this means for Cappuccino. Coming from a mac developer, Cappuccino is awesome. I was able to jump right in writing a complicated web app right away without having to use any javascript, html, or CSS. Lots of web developers probably think this sounds stupid, but man, it's awesome.

Re: Motorola Shutting Down 280 Slides

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RandallBrown wrote: post #2

I wonder what this means for Cappuccino. Coming from a mac developer, Cappuccino is awesome. I was able to jump right in writing a complicated web app right away without having to use any javascript, html, or CSS. Lots of web developers probably think this sounds stupid, but man, it's awesome.

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Re: Motorola Shutting Down 280 Slides

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Post by wwweston »

Anybody know why?

Not enough users?

Folding the product into something else?

Having something as awesome as Cappuccino and a flagship app like 280 slides runs counter to the Google thesis that JavaScript isn't good enough? ;)

Re: Motorola Shutting Down 280 Slides

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Post by pchristensen »

My comment from the day the acquisition was announced:

"pg, please, please get the people building awesome tools to become ridiculously profitable like Wufoo! I so wanted to use 280 North but I was scared they would get bought and vanish. My fear came true. EDIT: Half true. No word yet on what Motorola is going to do with them. Congrats to the 280 Norths, YC, and their other investors. Let's all join hands and pray that Motorola allows development on Cappuccino et al to remain public."

- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1631036

Re: Motorola Shutting Down 280 Slides

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Post by sek »

wwweston wrote: post #4

Anybody know why? Not enough users? Folding the product into something else? Having something as awesome as Cappuccino and a flagship app like 280 slides runs counter to the Google thesis that JavaScript isn't good enough? ;)

There was never a real market for it, Power Point and Google Presentation fills the need of most users i think.

To say that about Google is a little unfair, you can't argue they didn't try. Cappuccino is not that new any more and everyone is doing native apps right now.

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