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To: Adam Nash who wrote (13401)	5/11/1998 6:09:00 PM
From: Travis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

What I want to know now, is how is attendance and feedback at the WWDC? If attendance is down again, then we should be worried, as it was down a lot last year, too. Anyone have any details? -travis

To: Adam Nash who wrote (13401)	5/11/1998 6:17:00 PM
From: Travis	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 213177

I am seeing a lot* of false assumptions and claims on this board. The strategy is a lot clearer now than it has been in 3 years, so it is ironic that there is now confusion.* Well, I think this is one time that having worked for Apple might not allow you to see things as a layperson. :) Really, I am confused not so much at the strategy, but by the constant changing of strategies. I can't keep things straight anymore. From what I gather from you, Rhapsody is Mac OS 10. Does this mean Mac OS 10 will run on Intel??? That is a major thing, even bigger than just Rhapsody on Intel. Can you clarify this? Sorry if I am too confused for you, but I would bet that I am not the only one who has more questions than answers after Jobs speech. FWIW, I think it was probably best to just stick to the one OS approach. Apple is having enough of a hard time keeping developers for the Mac OS. thanks travis

To: Adam Nash who wrote (13401)	5/11/1998 7:30:00 PM
From: Marc Newman	Respond to of 213177

Excellent discussion going on here. Thanks to all those who are posting early links to developer/Mac press reactions (nice to see you back, Bob!). From Mr. Anguish's piece: <<Interestingly, DR2 was hardly focused upon in the morning sessions. The next major session is at 5:00pm; Yellow Box and Rhapsody in 1998. I expect a large number of details will become clear at that point.>> Perhaps there was little applause because the developers had been tipped off in advance? Certainly the big boys were. Like Rich, I'm a bit distressed at the further delays from what we'd been hearing six months ago. But I do think Apple will deliver on these dates. Jobs is running things very well and certainly has a plan. And as we know, he is to have a special guest at MacWorld NY. Marc

To: Adam Nash who wrote (13401)	5/11/1998 9:03:00 PM
From: Zen Dollar Round	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

Thank you for supplying this explanation for the clueless here on this thread. Rhapsody dead? Yeah, right, that's what Apple said. Gimme a break! It's the basis for Mac OS X, in that its strengths are being folded into it as the Mac OS X underpinnings. What we'll get is an even more robust OS that is substantially easier for developers to port to. Apple seems to be listening to developers again, and this is good news. While it's unfortunate Jobs didn't explain himself clearly enough for the naysayers on this thread to understand, you've summed it up nicely. Looks like the market for AAPL doesn't know how to react either. As for the "polite" applause comment, these are developers we're talking about here! They are, by nature (and with good reason) skeptical of Apple's plans. How many times have they been screwed in the past by developing for Apple technologies that never go anywhere? Open Doc, QuickDraw GX, PowerTalk, Bedrock, etc.