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About this siteFor six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul Tuesday, June 29, 2004Apple Lets Cat out of the BagWired has an interesting article in which Steve Jobs basically admits that Apple is, indeed, copying Longhorn search features. Presumably, that's the cat he let of out the bag. 'We think we are years ahead of Longhorn,' Jobs said. 'The other guys have been talking about it, and we're doing it.'"Well, actually, Steve, you're just talking about it too: Tiger won't ship until the first half of 2005. But Microsoft talked about it first, and has a more complete, relational database-based solution that isn't limited to a handful of file types. Maybe that's why it's taking so long. Jobs continues. "'It's very, very simple, and it's a really effective way to find anything ... it automatically finds stuff you'd never find by hand,' he said. 'We think it's going to revolutionize the way you use your system.'" So does Microsoft. They've been talking about it for years, and have shipped two public previews of the technology since last October. Presumably, that's where Apple got the, ahem, inspiration. But what rankles here is that Apple could simply be honest about this stuff. Obviously, it's important for all computer users to find their stuff quickly. Heck, that's what computers are good at, right? But rather than simply ignore that others are working on more elegant solutions, Jobs has the nuts to brag about how Microsoft is ... insert the sound of history rewriting ... copying them? Geesh. [ Posted at 3:12 PM | Permalink ]
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