Editing Bedrock (framework) (section)

===Discontinuation===
Apple VP Ike Nassi recalled that once he finally read the business contract between Apple and Symantec governing Bedrock, he emphatically described it as "a terrible, terrible contract" and demanded its immediate termination. Though lobbied "very heavily" in his office by Symantec Vice President Gene Wang and CEO Gordon Eubanks, Nassi ordered Apple to pay a fee to cancel it.<ref name="Oral History of Ike Nassi">{{cite interview | title=Oral History of Ike Nassi | first=Ike | last=Nassi | authorlink=Ike Nassi | interviewer=John Markoff and Hansen Hsu | date=August 26, 2016 | page=45-46 | location=Mountain View, CA | publisher=Computer History Museum | url=https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2018/10/102717190-05-01-acc.pdf | accessdate=February 10, 2019}}</ref>

On January 24, 1994 Apple and Symantec finally officially stated that Symantec was no longer actively developing Bedrock. Instead, Symantec granted Apple a "worldwide, perpetual license to distribute and further develop Bedrock. Additionally, Apple granted Symantec a worldwide perpetual license to use specific Apple technology in future Symantec products."<ref name="Shaking, Changing, Looking For Bedrock"/> However, all mention of Bedrock quickly disappeared from both companies' public statements.

Having relied on Bedrock to be the replacement for MPW and MacApp, Apple had done little development on its own platform. By 1994 this left the company with a hopelessly outdated development platform. Bedrock's failure amid the [[PowerPC]] efforts was also ill-timed. Symantec had also done little work with Think C during this period, especially the TCL libraries. This led to the rapid switch from both MPW and Think C to the more modern and PPC-native [[Metrowerks]] systems.<ref name="Shaking, Changing, Looking For Bedrock"/>