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Chronos Switches to Cocoa

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Chronos discusses moving their flagship product StickyBrain to Cocoa in this article at ADC. Their transition from CodeWarrior and PowerPlant to Xcode and Cocoa occurred about two years ago and had the unexpected benefit of trivializing support for Intel Macs via Universal Binaries.

Chronos founder Jerry Halls describes the move to Cocoa as "pretty scary. It meant throwing away literally everything we had done. It was a hard year, but really we have a much better, more robust, more feature-rich product after one year of development - compared to the two or three years of work for the earlier versions." However, the effort was justified since sales of Cocoa-based StickyBrain 3 out-paced the prior version by a factor of four in the first six months following release.

Chronos Switches to Cocoa [ADC]


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