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Wednesday, June 30, 2004 · 8:23 am · 27 Comments

Apple’s upcoming major new version of Mac OS X, version 10.4 ‘Tiger,’ includes a new feature called Dashboard. The Dashboard is a semi-transparent layer that zooms across your Desktop with a single button click, similar to the way Expos

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Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 9:32 am · Reply

Excellent, well done Apple
IT guy

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 9:35 am · Reply

Now, that’s being cheap? (I don’t know.. who so ever created this.. their SOH sucks.)
Boeing777

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 10:20 am · Reply

The credit should go to Konfabulator too.
I like Apple but...

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 10:26 am · Reply

Why does Apple have to steal some of the most innovative technologies created by small outfits that can’t defend their products rather than buying the rights to use them? Konfabulator and Watson are the big ones, but it does not put Apple on the moral high ground.

Open source is good and Apple has embraced it when it suites them (or Him). When Apple sees an opportunity to “innovate” a technology developed and proven by someone else they take it when they can. What gives?! I wonder what other ideas Apple has stolen without apology. Is Apple just like M$ but will a more coherent vision?

Flame away.
JadisOne

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 10:28 am · Reply

I like Apple but… do some research.

That graphic is too funny.
James

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 10:47 am · Reply

Too funny. Oh…and f*** Konfabulator, I’m sick of all the whining about it already…
Less is More

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 10:59 am · Reply

all flamed out on this topic
smegdude

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 11:11 am · Reply

pixars stock is also up on that stock ticker, not it seems that anyone cares
George

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 11:12 am · Reply

Did anyone notice that Pixar is also way up in that graphic?

btw – Dashboard is NOT Konfabulator and is NOT stolen from Konfabulator. Like Konfabulator, Dashboard is an update to the old Desktop Accessories. But, it goes way beyond Konfab, in that the Konfab widgets are limted to being Java applets, whereas Dashboard is HTML based, and therefore uses the entire range of web core technologies built into OSX.

Everyone should stop bashing Apple for reinventing an idea that was originally theirs (one that Konfabulator stole from Apple, not the other way around). And the people over at Konfabulator should stop whining and concentrate on making their software stable and usable.
Steve

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 11:14 am · Reply

The real loser though is Amazon. The graphic shows it at 1/10 its current value. Pixar is doing well in the graphic too, up 1/3 in value.
global village idiot

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 11:25 am · Reply

Um, I noticed this the other day. Why the big lag? Did it take MDN this long to catch on? Geez, I thought you folks were mac fanatics? I guess not so much…
Yambag

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 11:26 am · Reply

Seriously, Konfabulator sucks. If Apple can get it right then kudos to them. However, to compete fairly they should sell it as a boxed product. Including it in the OS basically nullifies Konfabulator which is a bit underhanded. Even if Apples version of widgets suck it will win(already has) by default. This smacks of MicroShaft/Netscrape.
Unassailable Investment Analyst

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 11:26 am · Reply

Apple’s stock is down after the keynote – because some investment jerkoffs predicted the G4 iMac. (And because other ignorant fools believed them.)
Dimoss

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 11:31 am · Reply

Do some research and you’ll see that Dashboard is a bit different to konfabulator and more powerful and easier in my opinion.

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/hyatt/archives/2004_06.html#005876
Jon E Wunnut

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 11:36 am · Reply

James, we’ll stop whining about Apple’s anticompetetive behavior to Konfab when the rest of the Mac community stops whining about Microsofts anticompetetive behavior, hypocrite.
g

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 11:42 am · Reply

Ok, here’s one thing that maybe I don’t understand. Apple is adding what seems to me to be like a really cool idea to Safari: RSS. Now why isn’t NetNewsWire getting mad. Certainly people won’t be buying their software after Tiger comes along because it will be built in. Actually, NetNewsWire is pleased that Safari will offer RSS in Tiger: http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=9028

I know, this has to be a different argument in some ways, but I just don’t understand the Konfabulator controversy. There’s no patent there. Besides that, I read elsewhere what Steve Jobs wrote back to someone who emailed him about the Konfabulator controversy: http://www2.konfabulator.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3966

As per Steve Jobs:

“Excuse me, but Mac OS 9 had desktop Widgets long before Konfabulator did. Apple was the first to use the term Widgets as well. We never complained when the Konfabulator guys “ripped off Apple” and I think its a bit unfair for them to be claiming we ripped them off now.

Steve”
One guy from Finland

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 11:44 am · Reply

LOL nice
Though AAPL should be round $50 by then when Tiger is around.
Jon E Wunnut

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 11:56 am · Reply

G,
As per Bill Gates:
“We were using a browser interface in our OS before netscape came along. We never complained when netscape ripped off the browser idea and I think it’s a bit unfair for them to be claiming that we shut them out.”
g

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 1:09 pm · Reply

Jon,
This has nothing to do with Winblows. Sorry. This is sort of an intra-Mac thing that I was commenting on. I know you are trying hard and you want to be a part of it, but…

Well, it’s kind of like how I look at religion. I don’t. It doesn’t even register on my radar except when I HAVE to think about it. It makes you wonder about the atheists that talk profusely about ‘god.’ Same thing with Windoze. Rarely do I ever even consider what they are doing. Ever since I’ve switched to Mac last November, I feel like I’m years ahead of all the people putting behind me with M$. I try to do my best to dissuade them, but it’s like they just don’t know or care to know how much better it is. They choose to be duped. But for the most part, it’s kind of not their fault because if they knew the *truth*, they probably would gasp at how much better Mac is. Like I did last year. No clue what Mac was. I just thought it was some hippie elitist club that I just had deemed myself not a part of. But I didn’t even consider it. But I’m damn glad I did. [Sorry to make an analogy with religion and computers, but it works here.]
g

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 1:10 pm · Reply

Does anyone ever get mad when you do a preview and it takes your name out of the field when you go to submit it? What is up with that? How un-Maclike for a Mac website. Well, I like MDN anyway, at least for the comments part.