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. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/OT-Rodeo-Last-minute-call-to-get-onboard-with-pre-realase-conditions-tp2293199p2295075.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
