JR KARY, I still dont see any link to a report reassuring me
about the speed of Rhapsody -- I recall a post a while back
saying someone had been thrilled to see it on a portable at an
expo and it seemed fast, but i dont trust such anecdotes, and
I dont trust the PR of Ms Hancock. I'd like to see evidence please
like comparisons with other O/s on the same processors.
Look, what I'm saying will be
GOOD for appl: people can run Rhapsody slowly on intel (relative
to win 95) or those who can afford it can buy the proper hardware
to go with it from appl where it runs useably. BAsically, you'll
need a damn fast RISC processor for Rhapsody to be `fast', thats
my prediction, and those with older machines might stick with OS 8.
No, I'm not a MSFT investor, YUK, I could have made a ton of
money buying intel and msft two years ago but I figured
thats `too obvious' and so I go after more creative and interesting
investment ideas. I keep an eye on APPL with a view to enter
after it after the next earnings.
OK, let me cheer you all up; I havent seen much discussion here
of Openstep Mail -- I dont know how much of it will survive
in Rhapsody but if it does, you will have the biggest treat
of your lifetime ahead of you:
Say you want to send a program to your buddy? You drag the
program icon into the email composition window. It just sits
there in the window as an embedded graphic. You email it. At the
other end, your buddy receives an email with your text and
the embedded icon just as you wrote it. She drags it into
her filespace and hey presto, the program is now on her computer
and she can run it!
Say you want to send her a nice graphic you found? Just drag
the graphic (eg by dragging it from your omniweb browser window)
into your email and it just sits there among your text as part
of your email. At other end it appears just the same way as
part of the email and can be dragged off it into any other
document or file system.
Likewise you can send someone a URL just drag its icon from
your brower into the email. Or (I think) a sound file ... or
whatever. The architecture of the OS is such that its all
easy for a programmer to do automatically in a manner drag and
drop compatible with all other programs and data types.
This isnt a dream. Its Next/Openstep email. Its `object oriented'
software where all data is handled intuitively in its native form
with all conversions, compressions, encoding etc done for you behind
the scenes and invisibly. No attatchements and separate files
to work with as in UNIX -- you just play directly with the data
in its intuitive form.
The only catch? In all my years owning next step I only every found
1 other user of Next Mail. Everyone else would get the email
and see pages of uuencoded hex garbage in place of the graphic
so I had to use it in plain `non-Next' mode. THATS just what will
change with Rhapsody. Suddenly you'll have a vast market of
APPL users sending this super-mail to eachother and MSFT users
will only be able to look on enviously but not join in.
Well, OK, technology evolves and next generation browsers
will eventually probably switch to hmtl-email as a standard
and with attempts to copy the kinds of features above. But
it will take them some years and Rhapsody will set the bar
higher and be totally integrated.
Good luck, all
Shahn |
