Jim,
Travis read AAPL's press release - Rhapsody is not MacOS 10
True, but it looks to me like MacOS 10 IS Rhapsody Plus.
I don't understand what you're so upset about, but it worries me because you are generally so well informed.
This is the way I see it (and please correct me where necessary).
1) We've still got Allegro this quarter.
2) We've still got Rhapsody 1.0 this quarter.
3) We've got a developer friendly road map for complete convergence of the two, within a year.
It seems to me that Jobs has saved our bacon by giving developers a simple, low investment strategy, that will induce them to continue to upgrade existing Mac applications. At the same time, the upgrades will enable the applications to take advantage of the advanced OS underpinnings that Rhapsody offers. This will occur with MacOS 10.
Brand new applications development remains the same as we expected, except that by insuring existing application support, new developers should find Apple more attractive because of the increased stability of the platform, provided by this transitional strategy.
Rhapsody is still there, and on time. It's just that the near future looks better with OS 10 and we have a great strategy for the transitional gap.
Regards,
Scott |
