Thirdly, I'm concerned that Steve may have over promised the capabilities of his genius OS developer staff. The job before them is HUGE! The delivery date is over a year out. I worry that a year may not be enough time to build the Promised Land OS.
This is one thing I'm not worried about. If anything, they will likely deliver early. I even wonder whether they're deliberatly postponing it, so that developers have time to convert their apps.
When I started using Rhapsody DR2, my first thought was: why don't they ship this thing? After further use, and running into a few bugs, I concluded that they do still have some work to do. But it's mostly little things: interface tweaks, wider hardware and peripheral support that kind of thing. And remember that Carbon was already working on Rhapsody at WWDC.
Interesting anecdote: I was using Blue Box, and an application crashed it; so I went to another computer, logged into Rhapsody (on the same computer that Blue Box had crashed), and shutdown Blue Box (killed the process). The moment I did this, Rhapsody came back up, and I rebooted Blue Box. There's probably a key combination to do this more easily. But still, it's fascinating, and was a perfect demonstration to me of the superiority of Rhapsody (and Unix).
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