Some days I don’t get Google.
Tuesday they announced a public release of Google Earth for Mac, (which should make Kathryn Cramer happy.) But their presense at Macworld was a tiny booth in the indy/small developer area on the eastern edge of the exhibit hall. Looking around, I couldn’t find the Google representative in the small group gathered around their iMac running Google Earth.
I didn’t know that there was a public release until I got home and caught up with the tech blogs.
Google Earth for Mac, while a very cool application, appears to have been written using the Qt framework, so it’s ugly compared to a Cocoa application, and it can’t be a Universal Binary (given today’s announcement, that could be an issue.)
The Google booth had some postcards announcing open positions for Cocoa developers, so if you’re inclined, talk to them. I hope there’s a Cocoa version of Google Earth soon.
