Should We Be Writing Epitaphs for the Mac?
When Steve Jobs said diddley about the Mac at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference some people started writing obits for the widget.
It had the Motley Fool, for instance, speculating about the iPhone’s newfangled iOS and the Mac’s OS X eventually merging into a new operating system built to run on an Apple proprietary A4 chip or its descendents and designed for highly interactive open web standards like WebKit, JavaScript and HTML 5.
Developers, it said, would be ready to adopt it because “it’ll already have played host to hundreds of thousands of software apps.”
The financial blog went on the say that if that sounds scary, it should.
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