I don't think this is the same sort of situation as what Microsoft was
doing, but I'm not sure and don't have time to try to hunt down the
article at present. Microsoft, to my knowledge, was engaged in a lot
of practices to try to strongarm users into sticking with IE, which is
not the same thing. Regardless, if there is something wrong with the
practices, Apple should and probably will do something about it. They
tend to be very pro-consumer on the whole.
Josh de Lioncourt
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On 29 Feb, 2008, at 4:40 AM, David Poehlman wrote:
Sorry folk, this is all I have at the moment, but perhaps greg or
others can
shed more light?
From: Soulskill
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 9:17 PM
Subject: Mac OS X Secretly Cripples Non-Apple Software
spikedLemur writes "Vladimir Vukicevic of the Firefox team stumbled
upon
some questionable practices from Apple while trying to improve the
performance of Firefox. Apparently, Apple is using some undocumented
APIs
that give Safari a significant performance advantage over other
browsers. Of
course, "undocumented" means that non-Apple developers have to try and
reverse-engineer these interfaces to get the same level of
performance. You
really have to wonder what Apple is thinking, considering the kind of
retaliation Microsoft has gotten for similar practices.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
