tuaw.com— TUAW has posted about apps that Leopard killed. There's some quotes from related developers, and you can also look at this as some apps to get Leopard features before it comes out.
Aug 8, 2006View in Crawl 4
leopard is going to kill much more than 7 apps. when apple makes a new OS, they actually do it. vista wont kill anything, IE7 won't make it better than firefox, and it wont be any more secure.edit: anyone notice the macpro banner at the top?
"Apple are going to have to try really hard to kill that app."I don't think that's their agenda. They are just trying to improve their own software. I can't see what's wrong with that. And people that like, say, QuickSilver or Firefox will continue to do so despite the features in Spotlight or Safari.
"MS coming up with any innovation they didn't outright steal or purchase, yeah that would be NEW!"Hey genius, you and you fellow fankids just spent the past few hours defending Apple for doing what you knocked Microsoft for doing.Gee, you guys cant even keep you propaganda straight.
My last XP machine crashed all the time. Every 15 minutes or so. The problem was I had hardware that was magically not compatible with Microsoft Security Updates. The thing ran great and never crashed as long as it was not on the Internet, placing it on the Internet it got infected with hundreds of viruses and worms within a few days because none of the security patches were applied. That was still better then applying the security patches which caused the thing to blue screen every 15 minutes. It was an OLD NEC just before their PC line went out of business and the support had run up anyways. So my choice was get a new motherboard, by a new computer or live with the viruses. I ended buying an Apple and have loved the fact that the software is guaranteed to work on the hardware it is written for.
Apple isn't stealing from anyone here. If they copy/pasted every line of a developer's code and renamed it, yes. Most of these were probably in the R&D program and I believe that Apple did recoginize the potential for these to be an enhancement to their operating system. So they look at their own operating system and redesign a feature similar for their own product, that's innovation.To the developers. You win some, you lose some. Now get back to work and create something better. Because as a designer, I get "ripped off" all the time.
mikevAug 9, 2006
leopard is going to kill much more than 7 apps. when apple makes a new OS, they actually do it. vista wont kill anything, IE7 won't make it better than firefox, and it wont be any more secure.edit: anyone notice the macpro banner at the top?
staedAug 9, 2006
"Apple are going to have to try really hard to kill that app."I don't think that's their agenda. They are just trying to improve their own software. I can't see what's wrong with that. And people that like, say, QuickSilver or Firefox will continue to do so despite the features in Spotlight or Safari.
flag564Aug 9, 2006
"MS coming up with any innovation they didn't outright steal or purchase, yeah that would be NEW!"Hey genius, you and you fellow fankids just spent the past few hours defending Apple for doing what you knocked Microsoft for doing.Gee, you guys cant even keep you propaganda straight.
marshnAug 9, 2006
@AiwaneiNot Linux at all.
danielwsmitheeAug 9, 2006
My last XP machine crashed all the time. Every 15 minutes or so. The problem was I had hardware that was magically not compatible with Microsoft Security Updates. The thing ran great and never crashed as long as it was not on the Internet, placing it on the Internet it got infected with hundreds of viruses and worms within a few days because none of the security patches were applied. That was still better then applying the security patches which caused the thing to blue screen every 15 minutes. It was an OLD NEC just before their PC line went out of business and the support had run up anyways. So my choice was get a new motherboard, by a new computer or live with the viruses. I ended buying an Apple and have loved the fact that the software is guaranteed to work on the hardware it is written for.
artmanAug 10, 2006
Apple isn't stealing from anyone here. If they copy/pasted every line of a developer's code and renamed it, yes. Most of these were probably in the R&D program and I believe that Apple did recoginize the potential for these to be an enhancement to their operating system. So they look at their own operating system and redesign a feature similar for their own product, that's innovation.To the developers. You win some, you lose some. Now get back to work and create something better. Because as a designer, I get "ripped off" all the time.