Mr. Taylor, those would be good points -- if they were true.
The beauty of Rhapsody is that the programming evniornment is portable. That is, it takes very little effort to recompile a program for Rhapsody on PPC to say, Rhapsody for Intel. Developers only have to worry about two enviornments, Mac OS & Rhapsody. An added bonus is that unlike Microsoft, Apple doesn't compete with it's developers.
As for the Newton, it was just spun off today. Now that it is at least arm's length from Apple, I think the prospects are the brightest they've ever been. Additionally, this gets Apple more focused on hardware and their OS strategy, not to mention a financial boost when "Newton, Inc." is sold or taken public.
And regarding your "idea" that Java is the final nail in Apple's coffin, that couldn't be any farther from the truth. Apple is building a Java Virtual Machine into Rhapsody, sort of as a hedge on their bets and to further their role in the era of internet computing.
1998 will be the best year that Apple has had in quite some time. |
