All Apple has to do is summarily drop a few of these features into a major dot-release, crank up the hype machine, and poof, more developers out of work.
#HOUDAHSPOT ALTERNATIVE SOFTWARE#
And, given Apple’s engineering and design pedigree, oftentimes that means that the Apple versions will be more stable, in some cases more useful and almost certainly more pretty (though not always).īut, it also means that a bunch of independent software developers who rely on selling these small but potent tools that Apple has now co-opted will lose business, not to mention get no return on the hard work, money and time spent building these tools. Building these features into the OS means that lots more people will get the benefit of these tools that many of us early adopters have already discovered. iCal: Gcal (open source) + Google Calendar (free).Spotlight: HoudahSpot ($14.95) and Meta - complex queries Searchlight - Spotlight for networks ($29.90) Quicksilver (free), Launchbar ($19.95 – $29.95) and Butler (donation-ware) - for application launching.iChat: Tiffany Screens (free), XMeeting videoconferencing (open source), Adium (open source).Mail: (…almost too many to list) Mail2iCalToDo (free), Mail2iCal (free), Note To Self, Mail to ToDo X (free), MailTemplate ($14.95),.
CoreAnimation: Coverflow (free), SVG or Flash (ok, not really an accurate comparison).Time Machine: SuperDuper! ($27.95), Lifeboat ($30), iBackup (donation-ware) or Carbon Copy Cloner (donation-ware).Spaces: Virtue Desktops ( open source), Desktop Manager (open source), You Control: Desktops ($29.95).Dashboard & Dashcode: Amnesty Singles ($9.95) and WCode ($15) and Wishingline’s Dashboard Widget Xcode Template.
#HOUDAHSPOT ALTERNATIVE UPGRADE#
And when your caché is innovation and constant coolification, you’ve always gotta deliver something wicked to knock ’em dead.īut, one supposes, those ideas need not come from within, and, when you’re Apple (or Google or whomever), looking to your community for ideas is probably as sure a bet as any for coming up with something you’d not thunk up (or at least not yet ripped off).Īnd so while Jobs gave his keynote at WWDC yesterday pointing out Redmond’s failure to deliver on Vista while OSX continues to steam ahead, I found it interesting that many of the features that they’re selling this upgrade with can already be found in the Mac developer community. This whole crowd-sourcing thing is pretty interesting, especially when you’re as big as Apple and you have as dedicated a following as it does.
0 kommentar(er)
