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Submission + - Steve Jobs Weighs In On Section 3.3.1 (taoeffect.com)

Submitted by Dotnaught
Dotnaught writes: Greg Slepak, founder of software company Tao Effect, wrote Apple CEO Steve Jobs to complain about Apple's mandate that iPhone applications be originally written in C/C++/Objective-C. Job's response was to endorse a post by John Gruber on the Daring Fireball blog. Jobs called it "very insightful," suggesting Gruber's prediction that third-party iPhone development tools are out might be right. Jobs sent a second reply that also doesn't bode well for third-party iPhone development tools: "We’ve been there before, and intermediate layers between the platform and the developer ultimately produces sub-standard apps and hinders the progress of the platform."
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Submission + - Windows 7 Taskbar not so similar to Dock after all (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by cremou brulee
cremou brulee writes: Redmond's photocopiers have been unusually busy for the last couple of years, with the result that Windows 7 copies a lots of Mac OS X features. First and foremost among these is the Dock, which has been unceremoniously ripped off in Windows 7's new Taskbar. Or has it? Ars Technica has taken an in-depth look at the history and evolution of the Taskbar, and shows just how MS arrived at the Windows 7 "Superbar". The differences between the Superbar and the Dock are analyzed in detail. The surprising conclusion? "Ultimately, the new Taskbar is not Mac-like in any important way, and only the most facile of analyses would claim that it is."

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