"If the proper hooks are in the APIs supplied by Apple and MS, and further, those API hooks across the platforms are *EXACTLY* the same, 100% as forced by government regulations, then it's not hard at all for everyone else to follow and stay in compliance."
You left me here Andrei. Aside from being highly unlikely to happen, aren't you in effect advocating that the OS developers become the arbiters of progress? Or worse yet that "forced government regulations" become the arbiters of progress? I would much rather count on market forces and free-wheeling innovation to move software evolution forward -- even in the chaotic and messy way it tends to happen. What I think is much more likely to happen is that -- should the courts in fact decree that equal access must be granted to certain types of publically accessible websites, such as Target -- competition will increase among the readers for market share and they will begin to innovate and improve rapidly in response to the opportunity to increase their revenue. And, just as happened with browsers, big players may enter the competition, such as MS. We'll undoubtedly end up with the same messy, blurry, frustrating mix of standards and approaches that we have had with the browsers -- but we'll end up with some really great solutions that no standards body or government agency would ever have come up with. Joseph Selbie Founder, CEO Tristream Web Application Design Http://www.tristream.com ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Guidelines ............ http://beta.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://beta.ixda.org/help Unsubscribe ................ http://beta.ixda.org/unsubscribe Questions .................. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home ....................... http://beta.ixda.org
