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To: e. boolean who wrote (13467)	5/11/1998 11:33:00 PM
From: Eric Yang	Respond to of 213177

e.b, this is very good news indeed. This elegant strategy offers developers a number of options for developing their application while providing Mac users advanced modern OS features with the ability to run new and old applications. Developers have three choices: 1) They can update their current apps to be carbon compliant. This will allow for access to MacOS X's advanced features without rewriting the entire application. 2) They can write new YellowBox applications from scratch. This will allow them to take advantage of rapid application development offered by the object oriented environment. The inherit portability of YellowBox code will allow these new applications to be deployed cross-platform. 3) Developers can choose to do nothing with their current applications. These apps will not be able to take advantage of modern features of MacOS X and will run within the Blue Box. Applications that misbehave will only be able to affect other applications within the BlueBox. For example it will not be able to corrupt memory outside of BlueBox and crash the entire machine. The way I see it, there were two options before today's announcement. YellowBox apps and BlueBox apps. Now we were given a third choice: Carbon compliant apps. MacOS X runs all three and will unify them. We're getting everything we want! This is a much smoother transition than a Yellow/Blue solution. 1) Implementation of Modern OS features. 2) Quick way for developers to update current apps to run on the new OS 3) Developers can write new apps under the YelloBox environment 4)These YellowBox applications will have the advantage of rapid application development offered by YelloBox/NeXT Step. It'll be easily portable across platforms. 5) Users will still be able to run current apps even if developers choose not to update them and make them Carbon-compliant Eric

To: e. boolean who wrote (13467)	5/12/1998 1:07:00 AM
From: Marc Newman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

<<3. Just saw a demo of Blue Box on Rhapsody DR2, and it is totally cool. Smooth transition on the fly back and forth to MacOS. All power-users will no doubt make transition to Rhapsody with 1.0 in September and run their Mac apps in the Blue Box.>> Ahh, now that's what I've been waiting for. So we can expect some nice OS revenue next quarter from Rhapsody 1.0, even if just from curiosity seekers and those who really need what the OS is offering. Appears we've got some new wall of worry now that we're in the low-thirties. Half the traders think we're going back to thirty and some of the others who do or do not have long positions say Apple is fairly valued here. I think one thing I hate to lose (though I'm not sure yet that we have lost it) is the Rhapsody on Intel OS. This is the kind of thing that provides a "story" for Wall Street. As we all know, a good story can lead to a higher PE. Btw, Travis' MacCentral link gives the lowdown on Mac OS 9: <<There's also confusion about Sonata and Mac OS X. Unlike I indicated in my keynote coverage, the two are not one and the same. Although both will be released in the third quarter of 1999, Sonata is the code name for the evolution of Mac OS 8 and will probably be officially tagged as Mac OS 9.>> ------------------- <<all these rumor sites made up Red and Green and Black, etc.>> Sounds like a Stendahl novel, actually. Maybe you're right, Adam, maybe the rumor sites did get us much more pumped up about the red box than we should've been. WWDC attendance seems to be 4000 or so folks. Wasn't that the same as last year? That's a good sign. Remember that last year was the first time Apple didn't count its own employees in the attendance; that made up part of the big falloff in 1997. Marc