3 Responses for "Micro…I Mean Apple Copies 3rd Party"

1. Lewis Powell

   June 29th, 2004 at 6:19 am

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   Well, looks like there is no Santa after all. I guess I had lost my belief that apple was a “good” corporation back when I found out about the Sherlock/Watson thing. Apple is not nice to its third party developers; but, well, they could still club a few hundred baby seals, and I think I’d rate them as “nicer” than Microsoft.
   It would be nice, though if Apple could bring the third party developers into the fold rather than steal from them.

2. Erik J. Barzeski

   June 29th, 2004 at 4:20 pm

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   Sherlock 3 existed in development long before Watson was released (or begun, as best as i can tell).

   “Apple is not nice to its third-party developers” is a rather oblique statement, with little actual fact behind it.

   I’ve got a syndication aggregator, and I’m happy to see Safari RSS.

3. Gregory Wostrel

   July 2nd, 2004 at 10:00 am

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   The whole uproar over Konfabulator being ripped off is foolish. Apple had the same thing developed for System 1 in 1981. If anyone ripped any one off, in terms of an idea, it was Rose and Konfabulator. Andy Hertzfeld is the one who should be credited with the idea. A great (in depth) analysis at Daring Fireball: http://daringfireball.net/2004/06/dashboard_vs_konfabulator.
   You can read all about the original at Andy’s site: http://www.folklore.org/ . Do a search for Desk Ornaments.