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Catherine Ferris <kate@tycho.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Rebecca and Rowland <real-address-in-sig@flur.bltigibbet> wrote (cut
> down):
[snip]
> Apple's next venture into the PC market (after Colour Sync and Apple
> Script, which have already been announced)

I was under the impression that AppleScript has been available for
Windows for some time.

> will be the YellowBox API's.
> This technology will be handled in a similar way to QuickTime. Run time
> licencing will be part of the product cost, and will not require a
> seperate purchase for basic use. The final product on the PC will be a
> downloadable set of DLL's that will allow Yellow Box application to run
> on the Windows OS.

Hmm - interesting.

> Apple cannot afford to complete head-to-head with MicroSoft on the OS
> front at this point. 

That doesn't mean that it couldn't have pushed Rhapsody forward as a
useful Intel PC OS; after all, with all those Linux users around, plenty
of them would like to try something with a bit more flexibility and
usability and more software, wouldn't you think?

[snip]

> Rhapsody is not dead, this is just FUD being spread about Apple
> continuing demise !

As I understood the matter, the thing about Rhapsody is that it was
specified as providing a strict superset of the OpenStep API.  I gather
that MacOS X is not intending to provide this, hence my comment about
Rhapsody being dropped.

It's nice to hear more about what Apple's intent on doing, and it does
sound like Jobs isn't any more insane than usual.

Rowland.

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