Comment Re:Imitation is the sincerest form... (Score 1) 320
Just like to point out that the last part (Desk Accessories) is as tenuous an argument as saying that all this stuff was really a rip-off of real-life desk accessories sitting on your real-life desk.
While this may or may not be true (I don't have a traffic cam on my real-life desk), the point that this argument misses is that Konfabulator made some substantial leaps beyond what Desk Accessories or desk accessories were able to offer. Perhaps most importantly, Apple's original Desk Accessories were not at all something that users were intended to create or modify. Their similiarity to Konfabulator Widgets is primarily technical. Dashboard on the other hand, clearly copied the essense of what made Konfabulator so popular (along with some of the nomenclature and basic structure).
But, all this is in the past ... so no point in dwelling on it. Now Apple, Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo! have some version of Widgets as part of their web offerings ... and apparently, coming soon to your cell phones, thanks to Yahoo! or Konfabulator or the inventor of the desk, or something.
While this may or may not be true (I don't have a traffic cam on my real-life desk), the point that this argument misses is that Konfabulator made some substantial leaps beyond what Desk Accessories or desk accessories were able to offer. Perhaps most importantly, Apple's original Desk Accessories were not at all something that users were intended to create or modify. Their similiarity to Konfabulator Widgets is primarily technical. Dashboard on the other hand, clearly copied the essense of what made Konfabulator so popular (along with some of the nomenclature and basic structure).
But, all this is in the past
