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June 29th, 2004, 11:41 AM
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| Where were the people up and screaming when Apple put Fast User Switching into their OS, "surely it will ruin Microsoft's Windows Software..." Ideas are ideas, and implementations are implementations. If Konfabulator makes itself worth more then Dashboard, and remains worth the dollars that the developer charges for it, then people will buy it. Otherwise there are always new ideas which can be had and developed and sold to the computer nerds who need them. If I was Launchbar (or my favorite, Quicksilver) I would get my hands on the Spotlight SDK as fast as I can and figure out how to implement it to accomplish my goals. Apple has said what they will be offering, take that and improve on it, or take a different angle and try to do something else. It's not like apple is coming out with a product release which will stomp all over your offering - they are giving you a good years warning! Take this time to improve your application and by the time Tiger comes out you will be able to kick the crap out of Spotlight or Dashboard or whatever.
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June 29th, 2004, 12:11 PM
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| Konfabulator is kinda cool but it's still a solution in search of a problem. Dashboards are fairly simplistic in use. I guess if they kill Konfab them it's more of a reality that Konfab is a toy. Launchbar is cool but indexing has been around in search for a long time. I doubt their indexer is going to be as good as what's in Tiger. In the keynote Jobs pulls text from the map on a pdf as a seach criterion. That's amazing. Some tools will just end up being brought into the OS. As a developer if you have a product that can't be patented(probably meaning there is prior art) then you take that risk. No on wants to pay extra for a RSS reader, the browser is the focal point of web browsing. The way to differentiate yourself here is offer must have features that people are willing to pay extra for. Apple treats their developers fine. Out the the few that they compete with there are thousands upon thousands that they do not. Pick and choose your projects carefully developers. |
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June 29th, 2004, 12:28 PM
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June 29th, 2004, 02:04 PM
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| Spotlight and Dashboard (and most of Tiger's new features) are open technologies that anyone can utilize... Developers should start ASAP develop newer, better products instead of blah-blah and blah some more  †† AmeN ††
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June 29th, 2004, 03:40 PM
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June 29th, 2004, 03:57 PM
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| I'd love a Konfab that: - uses less CPU - is easily on-off Therefore I shall most probably love Dashboard And I'm already convinced that Spotlight will be a great innovation... if I can use it on my old 1 GHz G4.
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June 29th, 2004, 04:04 PM
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| v,v ok it is going to be implemented weather you all like it or not, think it is fair or not, or care or not. too bad launch bar and konfab are going to lose money/users just re-implement something above and beyond what apple has done and be sure to patent it next time And that scott fella (you know... the one who made/hosts that mac site) he sure has some real nerve! If I ever get my hands on him .... |
