Re: Google Not Supporting Gears on Snow Leopard?

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Faisal N Jawdat <faisal () faisal com>
Date: October 8, 2009 2:21:42 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] Google Not Supporting Gears on Snow Leopard?

For IP, if you wish --

This is probably more "complicated" than "conspiracy."



Gears is implemented as an extension against a discouraged interface  
(the InputManager system). It wouldn't be a stretch to call it a hack  
and an abuse of the system resources. Most of the tools that use a  
similar approach (Safari Cookies, Logitech Control Center, etc.) have  
been moving to a different way of accomplishing this (mostly the  
Scripting Additions system). All of them did not support running in 64- 
bit mode at first. Many still do not.



-faisal



On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Dave Farber <dave () farber net> wrote:




Begin forwarded message:

> From: Nic Pottier <nicpottier () gmail com>
> Date: October 8, 2009 11:17:26 EDT
> To: dave <dave () farber net>
> Subject: Google Not Supporting Gears on Snow Leopard?
>
> For IP if you wish..
>
> I'm usually not the one to cry conspiracy theory, but I have been
> rather surprised at how slowly Google is moving to support it's own
> product in Snow Leopard.
>
> Namely, you cannot install Google Gears on Snow Leopard without using
> a third party hack, and even then it will only work in 32 bit
> browsers.
>
> This has been detailed here:
> <http://code.google.com/p/gears/issues/detail?id=847>
>
> With the clear frosting of the relationship between Google and Apple
> recently, it really makes one wonder.  As a user of Google properties
> for a long time, I've always appreciated that they treated OS X as a
> first class citizen.  Perhaps an update is right around the corner,
> but their comments on the bug report don't sound promising.
>
> <conspiracy>
>
> Could this be the first signs of Google using it's high adoption rate
> of Gmail and the like to help give their upcoming GoogleOS a leg up?
>
> </conspiracy>
>
> -Nic
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