Alomex: Developers killed Rhapsody by not developing for it, so Apple decided to make it
official (all $400 million worth) pick up the pieces and move MacOS forward.
No, not at all. They are folding MacOS into Rhapsody. MacOS X = Rhapsody + 6,000 MacOS calls.
Another way to put it: they ditched the Blue Box, not Rhapsody, and replaced Blue Box with Carbon.
You probably posted your note while Adam was writing his. He explains it better than I do (i.e., he knows what he's talking about):
Message 4413825
dobr: This is *great* news, so why wasn't it presented that way?
I don't know. The strange thing about it is the way they presented it. It seems like they decided that they needed to sell Mac developers on the Carbon concept, and felt that they should underplay Rhapsody. And perhaps they don't want to alert the Wintel camp that the Mac invasion is imminent.
Whatever the case, I agree with Alomex that it went over badly. It sounded like Apple had yet another strategy, and that their timetable has been pushed back. And for those reasons, the crowd gave them a lukewarm response. In fact, that's not true. They haven't taken anything away, only added something, convergence, that is highly beneficial to all. Hopefully they will re-explain it in a better way. Soon.
rhet0ric |
