Editing OpenDoc (section)

===Competing visions===
In March 1992, the [[AIM alliance]] between Apple, IBM, and Motorola, was launched with OpenDoc as a foundation. [[Taligent]] was formed as a primary objective of AIM, adopted OpenDoc, and promised somewhat similar functionality although based on very different underlying mechanisms. OpenDoc progressed, but Apple greatly confused developers by suggesting that it should be used only for porting existing software, but new projects should instead be based on Taligent as the presumptive future OS for Macintosh. In 1993, John Sculley called Project Amber (a [[codename]] for what would become OpenDoc) a path toward Taligent.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mackido.com/History/History_OLE.html|title=MacKiDo/History/History_OLE}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0Uw3oTahRcwC|title = Computerworld|date = May 17, 1993}}</ref> Taligent was considered the future of the Macintosh, and work on other tools like [[MacApp]] was considerably deprioritized.

Through OpenDoc's entire lifespan, analysts and users each reportedly "had very different views" of the OpenDoc initiative. They were confused about their role, regarding how much of OpenDoc-based development would be their responsibility versus IBM's and Apple's responsibility. There were never many released OpenDoc components compared to Microsoft's [[ActiveX]] components. Therefore, reception was very mixed.<ref name="IBM ships first"/>

Starting in 1992, Apple attempted to replace MacApp development framework with a cross-platform solution called [[Bedrock (framework)|Bedrock]], from [[NortonLifeLock|Symantec]]. Symantec's [[Think C]] was rapidly becoming the tool of choice for development on the Mac. While collaborating to port Symantec's tools to the [[PowerPC]], Apple learned of Symantec's internal porting tools. Apple proposed merging existing MacApp concepts and code with Symantec's to produce an advanced cross-platform system. Bedrock began to compete with OpenDoc as the solution for future development.

As OpenDoc gained currency within Apple, the company started to push Symantec into including OpenDoc functionality in Bedrock. Symantec was uninterested in this, and eventually gave up on the effort, passing the code to Apple. Bedrock was in a very early state of development at this point, even after 18 months of work, as the development team at Symantec suffered continual turnover. Apple proposed that the code would be used for OpenDoc programming, but nothing was ever heard of this again, and Bedrock disappeared.

As a result of Taligent and Bedrock both being Apple's officially promised future platforms, little effort had been expended on updating MacApp. Because Bedrock was discontinued in 1993 and Taligent was discontinued in 1996 without any MacOS release, this left Apple with only OpenDoc as a modern OO-based programming system.