[Ti] Safari Dagger

[Ron Woodland]

I think the trend of Apple developing a diversity of really good 
software is significant.  For many years, Apple's philosophy was that 
they would stay out of the software arena and support third-party 
developers.  It was a positive symbiotic relationship ...for the most 
part.  But things have changed.  I think Steve and his people have 
become frustrated by third party developers abandoning the Mac, yet 
there are "insanely great" opportunities for the right "killer" software 
...as Apple has demonstrated with FileMaker, Final Cut, etc.

A second aspect of this trend of Apple software is even more long-term. 
  Microsoft is profitable without hardware sales (...although that may 
not be completely accurate in the broader sense, because of their 
dominating influence in the market).  Rumors of MacOS X running on the 
PC-compatible platform have been circulating for years.  What if Apple 
were to release MacOS X for PCs?  That can only happen if Apple has 
sufficient non-hardware revenue streams.  The growing stable of software 
that Apple is developing (or acquiring) is possibly in support of that 
happening one day in the future.

My thoughts,
Ron Woodland


Tomas Jones wrote:

> On 1/9/03 8:33 AM, "Administrator" <toddclemmer at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>I wonder how Omnigroup, Mozilla, Opera feel about new safari.
>>I seems that it is kind of a slap in the face for the companies that
>>worked on X browsers.
>>
> 
> Maybe, but Apple is defining itself as a software company; as well as
> hardware.  Everyone has known this some time.  The rumors or a browser have
> been around for a while.
> 
> The only one that I was pissed about was the development of Sherlock; to
> look like Watson.  I still use Watson, and Sherlock is off the dock.
> Browsers are another matter.
> 
> Cheers, Tomas Jones