Isn’t Bill Gates the one that Steve Jobs owes the feature to? As far as I can tell (from documentation, I haven’t tried panther out myself yet), it mimics the way windows has done it for the past 8 or so years.
Matt: Technically yes, but if you look at Proteron software vs. Panther, you’ll see a nearly pixel-by-pixel copy. I never used the software before, but I’ve gone back and looked at screen shots. The man has a point.
Apple did a similar thing with Sherlock last year when they released Jaguar. It copied Watson pretty badly.
I think that the feature was originally included in NeXTStep, after which it appeared in Windows, after which Proteron implemented it for Mac OS X, and now Apple included it in Mac OS X (which is based on NeXTStep). I nice feature to have!
I’m not convinced. First of all, this feature has not only existed in Windows, and NextStep, it existed in OS 9 — if anything, Apple should be taken to task for not getting this included sooner. It’s just like the color labels feature that didn’t make the jump from OS 9 to X until Panther — Unsanity isn’t crying poor mouth about Labels X.
Everyone keeps bringing up the Sherlock/Watson thing, which I also think is without merit. It’s obvious that Watson was an extension of Sherlock, why anyone thinks that Apple wouldn’t be moving that direction before Karelia is a bit niave to me. According to some Apple developers, Sherlock 3 was already headed down the road it ended up on before Watson even reared its head. And let’s not forget that Apple offered Dan Wood a job.
So when independent developers start crying that their enhancements to already existing products are being absorbed into the products they enhance, I have a hard time feeling much sympathy.
LiteSwicth offers things that Apple hasn’t implemented, for example hiding apps from showing in the “switch pop-up”. But Panther saves you from shelling out $30 for iChat AV 🙂
Isn’t Bill Gates the one that Steve Jobs owes the feature to? As far as I can tell (from documentation, I haven’t tried panther out myself yet), it mimics the way windows has done it for the past 8 or so years.
Matt: Technically yes, but if you look at Proteron software vs. Panther, you’ll see a nearly pixel-by-pixel copy. I never used the software before, but I’ve gone back and looked at screen shots. The man has a point.
Apple did a similar thing with Sherlock last year when they released Jaguar. It copied Watson pretty badly.
However, Panther is worth the upgrade, Exposé kicks major butt. As does the updated UI.
I think that the feature was originally included in NeXTStep, after which it appeared in Windows, after which Proteron implemented it for Mac OS X, and now Apple included it in Mac OS X (which is based on NeXTStep). I nice feature to have!
I’m not convinced. First of all, this feature has not only existed in Windows, and NextStep, it existed in OS 9 — if anything, Apple should be taken to task for not getting this included sooner. It’s just like the color labels feature that didn’t make the jump from OS 9 to X until Panther — Unsanity isn’t crying poor mouth about Labels X.
Everyone keeps bringing up the Sherlock/Watson thing, which I also think is without merit. It’s obvious that Watson was an extension of Sherlock, why anyone thinks that Apple wouldn’t be moving that direction before Karelia is a bit niave to me. According to some Apple developers, Sherlock 3 was already headed down the road it ended up on before Watson even reared its head. And let’s not forget that Apple offered Dan Wood a job.
So when independent developers start crying that their enhancements to already existing products are being absorbed into the products they enhance, I have a hard time feeling much sympathy.
LiteSwicth offers things that Apple hasn’t implemented, for example hiding apps from showing in the “switch pop-up”. But Panther saves you from shelling out $30 for iChat AV 🙂