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Tuesday, June 29, 2004

Developer calls Apple's Tiger a copycat

CNET: "Apple Computer is predicting that rivals will mimic Mac OS X Tiger, but one developer says it's the new Mac operating system that is doing the copying. Arlo Rose is outraged at the similarity of Apple's Dashboard, previewed earlier Monday by Apple CEO Steve Jobs, to his Konfabulator, a $25 Macintosh program. Both programs allow easy access to small programs called Widgets, which can perform a number of useful little tasks. 'It's insulting, is what it is,' Rose said in a telephone interview. 'They could have at least offered to work with us or to buy it.' ... It is not the first time Mac OS X has stepped on what some see as other's turf. Apple, based in Cupertino, Calif., previously expanded its Sherlock search tool to add features such as movie times and yellow pages in a format that closely paralleled a third-party tool called Watson."

And another loyal Apple developer gets screwed over by the mothership. Business as usual in Cupertino.

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