[SmartcardServices-Dev] Effort to rebuild smartcard services on Mac from ground up

[Shawn Geddis]

On Apr 22, 2015, at 1:48 PM, Frank Mariën <frank at apsu.be> wrote:
> Hello Chris,
> Chris Inacio schreef op 22/04/15 om 21:2359:
> From my POV of some years in a SmartCardServices-dependent project (on OSX, at least, we support 2 other platforms), I can tell you that Apple effectively doesn't care one damn bit. After our years-long attempts at getting the slightest bit of information about the largely invisible roadmap, we got.. zero response.. Even mentioning the 11 million potential users didn't get their attention.. My impression: Apple, being a US company, needs to appear "patriotic" and "supporting the troops" etc.. so they cannot help but support CAC cards, but otherwise, if you have a business model based on anything smart-card related involving Apple Inc.. RUN LIKE HELL!
> -f

So unfortunate that you feel the need to slander that which you do not know.  

Apple does not provide OS roadmaps outside of what is provided at WWDC.  Other than that, none of your statements above are true with respect to Apple Inc. or myself as an Apple employee leading this project.

- Shawn
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