Linked by Jean-Baptiste Quéru on Tue 29th Jun 2004 17:40 UTC
Let me make it clear. I'm not a fan of Apple. I think that their products are overhyped, overpriced and underperforming. If you're looking for a fair unbiased opinion, you're looking in the wrong place. You've been warned. So, I was at Steve Jobs' 2004 WWDC keynote yesterday, attempting to take pictures for OSNews (an amazingly hard task, by the way, which really explained why people pay big bucks for big lenses equipped with image stabilizers). UPDATE: Stop reading right there, I have rewritten & updated the article here.
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Dear Apple:
I cannot believe that you would go so far as to replace the programs that users most popularly use with your own competing ones. LaunchBar and Konfabulator are now replaced by Spotlight and Dashboard.
You are killing innovation on the Mac. You are not helping innovation by encouraging developers to make cool and awesome applications; what you're doing is completely the opposite. You stifle innovation by granting your own programmers increased access to Mac OS X APIs (SystemUIServer elements anyone?), barely managing to avoid patent/copyright infringement by creating duplicates of everything you see that you think is awesome (reminds me of a Redmond based company) and crushing the very developers that make people switch to the Mac because of the cool things that shareware developers do. What's next?
You've already tried to kill Watson with Sherlock 3, you're destroying the reseller community by giving your Apple Stores increased favor, and I guarantee you're going to hear from Objective Development and Arlo Rose / Perry Clarke (Konfabulator inventors, cause I figure you don't know them) in the next few weeks.
Tread carefully.