Chapter 1: Introducing Cocoa

In This Chapter

Introducing Cocoa

Understanding Cocoa's history

Profiting from Cocoa

Introducing Xcode and the Apple developer programs

Apple's Cocoa technology is one of computing's success stories. When OS X 10.0 was released in 2001, it immediately revolutionized the look and feel of desktop applications. Since then, other operating systems have borrowed freely from Cocoa's innovations. Apple has continued to innovate with the iPhone and iPad, introducing Cocoa Touch for mobile devices. Cocoa Touch offers a simplified and more tactile user experience, and is the first popular and successful attempt to move beyond a traditional window, mouse, and menu interface. Future versions of Cocoa on the Mac are likely to blend the iPhone's tactile technology with the sophisticated data handling, 64-bit memory management, and rich user interface options that are already available to....