Wed, 08 Jan 2003
That Apple Thing.
I’ve been watching the fallout from Steve Jobs’ keynote yesterday with interest.
Most of the discussion on the web has centred on Apple’s new webbrowser called Safari.
I’m not going to talk about that as I’m working on a separate article on Safari with an intent to focus on issues which others haven’t discussed yet (namely, everything except for webpage rendering bugs and the bookmarking features).
This keynote is Apple’s most interesting keynote in a long while, even more interesting than the introduction of the new iMac (a phrase which unfortunately has similiar connotations as “New Coke”).
The first thing to note is Apple’s continuing shift towards openness.
An open XML file format for Keynote (although Apple will have to publish a detailed specification document plus DTDs and such for the format if they really want people to build tools for the format).
It seems that the Apple software development culture has realised the value of open standards, of letting people scratch their itches.
Apple will be interesting to watch over the year.
Baldur Bjarnason.
Clifton, Bristol.
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