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

[Sujal Shah]

On Sat, 2002-07-20 at 20:10, Mitch Stone wrote:
[SNIP]
> Sherlock 3 will apparently be functionally very similar to Karella's 
> Watson. In fact when it was leaked out to the rumor sites a month or so 
> back, it looked for all the world like Apple had bought Watson. According 
> to Karella, this isn't the case. Odd, I thought, since the author 
> demonstrated Watson to a very enthusiastic audience in a side-session at 
> last January's MW. I used Watson for a month or so until the demo license 
> expired and probably would have purchased it had Apple's plans for 
> Sherlock 3 not come to light.
> 

Which is annoying, and rather unfortunate.  I understand that Sherlock
had a natural evolution toward Watson, but I wish Apple had handled it
differently.  This is just ham fisted PR, something that they don't need
along with the (deserved or undeserved) negative PR that they are
getting because of .Mac and Jaguar's upgrade price.

Of course, I'm one of the third-party developers for Watson (I developed
an open source tool for Watson for baseball scores, see my home page),
so I'm a little biased (not that much since I wasn't trying to make
money, actually, but I feel bad for Dan).

Sujal

> >
> >        "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.
> 
> Possibly, but only one of these browsers is Cocoa-based, and that's the 
> direction Apple wants to go with OSX.
> 
> Mitch
> 
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