Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 19th Jul 2002 18:36 UTC
Remember a month ago, when I urged the open source developers to take on this software and develop something equivelant and multi-platform? It seems that the only people who actually got interested in my $100 USD offer... was Apple.
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This has been rehashed about anyone who's ever sold an operating system. For any OS vendor, there's basically a balancing act going on among a large number of competing interests:
Do you want to duplicate a developer's product or sell an OS that seems like it's lacking features?
Do you bundle stuff with your OS to make it seem more compelling than your competitor's, or hope that some developer will come along and do it for you?
Do you write software to take advantage of newly added capabilities of your OS, or just hope a developer will do so for you?
Do you drop a capability in order to move the whole OS forward, even if some developers depend on it?
Etc. etc. etc. ad nauseum
There is no right answer here - i'm not aware of any company that's never pissed off a subset of its developers.
Apple's currently decided that it needs to create software that makes purchasing its computers compelling, and potentially to give it a greater degree of independence from Microsoft. Some of that software will invariably compete with offerrings from their developers. Some of those developers will throw their hands up in disgust and walk away, others will think of something to make their products more compelling than Apple's. This sort of thing's been going on for years.
One last note - i agree with the poster above that Sherlock3 is a reasonably obvious extension of Sherlock2.
Cheers,
Jay