bfg9000's Journal: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

"I'm not sure you're aware of my history in this industry but I was one of the Human Interface leads on Copland at Apple, and we had no technology like Konfabulator at all."
--Arlo Rose, Author of Konfabulator, the most recent third-party OS X app to be embraced, extended, and extinguished by Apple Corporation.

Sure, sure, maybe he's biased because he just got Steved with Dashboard. But maybe he's not, and it's the Slashdot Zealot Squad who have it wrong when they say the unreleased Dashboard actually preceded Konfabulator by decades even though we have no evidence whatsoever of this.

Either way, it looks like some pretty uncool business decisions by Apple... especially for a company who claims to be unbelievably extremely cool and won't ever let us forget it.

Unfortunately, in this case at least, they're as hip and cool as Microsoft. Yay.

Shades of Watson! Check out this old nugget from a past Journal Entry...