[Am-info] Jobs Touts OS, Unveils New IPod

[Mitch Stone]

Don't you mean a Praying Mantis? (maybe that is a kind of grasshopper...)

To go up against Office the next version of AppleWorks would need to be 
completely overhauled, and I don't see that in the cards at the moment 
(unless it happens to be one of Apple's best kept secrets). Apple would 
probably be better off throwing their weight behind OpenOffice for the Mac 
-- but they haven't done that, either.

Apple hasn't ever offered its own web browser. We've been through this 
several times before, but the late lamented CyberDog wasn't a browser, but 
an OpenDoc container that functioned as a browser. In any event, with so 
many superior alternatives already in existence, I can't imagine Apple 
spending their limited resources in this way.

Mitch

On Saturday, July 20, 2002, at 02:15 PM, Paul Rickard wrote:

> ========== On 2002.07.20 03:36 PM, Mitch Stone typed: ============
>
>> This echoes my suspicions. If Microsoft were a genuine business partner 
>> to
>> Apple (which of course they are not to Apple or anyone else), they would
>> offering some sort of public recognition and support for the difficulty
>> and importance of what Apple is attempting to accomplish in the OSX
>> transition. At least they would not be criticizing so them like an
>> impatient, disapproving parent. Microsoft is never going to admit that 
>> the
>> real source of their disapproval is, most likely, Apple's current ad
>> campaign.
>
>      Microsoft is a "partner" in the same way a female grasshopper is the
> partner to a mate she's going to devour once he's properly fertilized her.
>      That Apple ad campaign is a definite sign of things to come. The guy
> saying "Windows is just clunky" is Apple firing a shot across Microsoft's
> bow. We won't play nice anymore when we don't have to. And Microsoft
> dropping all Macintosh development is no longer an "if" but a "when," IMO
> anyway. The entire MBU will be laid off or transferred to Microsoft's
> Syberian subsidiary. (Expect some of those people to show up inside Apple
> sooner or later.) AppleWorks 7 will be a key - that software suite will
> be advanced enough to make up for the demise of office:mac whenever that
> happens. The fireworks start in about 5 weeks when the August 1997
> contract runs out.
>      By the way, for any Mac users: What do you think about the
> possibility of Sherlock 4 being a full-blown Web browser? The thought
> occured to me the other day... Apple had one before the Microsoft
> agreement and might need one again if IE disappears on the Mac. We shall
> see.
>
>
> ======== Paul Rickard, Editor of The Microsoft Boycott Campaign =======
> --------------------------------[ Http://www.msboycott.com ]-----------
>
>   "But for Microsoft's interference, the market would be much more
>    dynamic as new technologies and fresh innovations challenged the
>    company's present dominance."
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