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

[Paul Rickard]

========== On 2002.07.20 05:35 PM, Mitch Stone typed: ============

>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.

     Not knowing the details of their Microsoft agreement, Apple might be 
contractually forbidden from putting any weight behind a 3rd party office 
suite. Again, we'll see in a few weeks. A new version of AppleWorks is 
due out this fall, so far I've heard nothing about what's in it. They 
might use the OS X strategy and build AppleWorks 7 on top of OpenOffice 
or something similar.

>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.

     Browser or functioned as one, it was still there. I don't disagree 
with you, just don't think it makes a lot of difference either way what 
CDog was. Sherlock is already evolving into a more significant Internet 
client - version 3 will apparently have the ability to display content 
like maps and news. How much work does it take to go from that to a full 
blown Web browser?

       "The all new Sherlock is dramatically better than standard web 
browsers
       at retrieving and displaying some of the most practical and useful
       information available on the internet, like stock news, general 
headlines,
       movie previews, locations and show times, yellow pages listings, 
eBay
       auction activity and much, much more." ( 
www.apple.com/macosx/jaguar/sherlock.html )

     Apple doesn't have to necessarily spend its own resources on 
developing a new browser, they can just use elements of Mozilla or some 
other open source product and add a new UI and extra features. Again, the 
same strategy used with OS X. The company should at least include iCab, 
OmniWeb, Netscape, Mozilla, and Opera on the install CDs once it no 
longer has to use IE as the default.


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