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Weblog:   Apple As Innovator
Subject:   According to another Expert, Apple is not an innovator
Date:   2003-05-29 17:40:49
From:   anonymous2
Tim O'Reilly:


Surprise, surprise. So when should Apple port Mac OS X to Intel? Why didn't you comment on Apple's innovation in _colors_?


While it seems Apple has been having trouble seeing the value in its own technologies*, every day some expert talks up an insignificant "buzz" technology (Jini) and completely ignores an Apple technology that worked so well it was almost invisible.


Rendezvous is simply a translation of the AppleTalk ethos into a TCP environment using broadcasting protocols.


Microsoft fills its glass houses with enough megalomaniacs and PHD's to bury innovative developers, then it innovates via press release.


Sincerely,
Sean Broderick



* How could anyone justify omitting AppleScript terms when upgrading an application--forcing users to rewrite scripts or an obsolete version? Compare old and new versions of Disk Copy.
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  • According to another Expert, Apple is not an innovator
    2003-05-29 17:54:20  anonymous2 [Reply | View]

    I'm not sure what you're responding to. I thought I was saying that Apple *is* an innovator, though more of an innovator in driving technology forward to the market than necessarily in *inventing* that technology.

    But you seem to be reading everything I said backwards. I was talking up Rendezvous rather than Jini, precisely because "it works so well it [is] almost invisible."

    So I think we're in violent agreement, except about tone of voice.


    Tim O'Reilly
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