[OT-Rodeo] Last minute call to get onboard with pre-realase conditions!

[Peter Alcibiades]

Yes, this is indeed a complete showstopper, there is no Mac hardware in the
future of quite a lot of us.  Its very interesting, in particular the
Transfer package is very interesting, but nothing is interesting enough to
move one back into that particular ghetto.

On the future of web apps on Apple hardware, Jerry is certain that the fact
that they are developing for webkit means that Apple will not be able to bar
this, even if it turns out to be a way of providing users with apps that
bypass the app store, and so means they have a motive to bar apps written
with it.  

We'll find out together.  Apple is ingenious, in control of their OS and all
apps, and ruthless with it.  The app store and associated control over what
the users do is central to the whole business model.  He may be right that
they will be unable to bar it, but the chances are that they will give it a
very serious try.  If you look at the history of webkit, the communications
back to the community from Apple, since it forked KHTML, compatibility
issues, you will find room for skepticism.   If you look at the history of
attempted content censorship via tha app store, and that is only the ones we
know about, because most of that is censored too, you'll not doubt their
commitment to control.

But hey, we'll see.  It will be most interesting.  Meanwhile, one assumes
that it means that Rodeo apps will run in Chrome or Konqueror or Galeon on
Linux?  Now that is interesting.  Its just a pity one cannot write them in
the OS they will run on.


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