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Who's on First (3/23/98)
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Following our recent worried wonderings about Rhapsody's future, Mac OS Rumors was kind enough to post a clarification of what is ostensibly Apple's plan for its dual OS strategy. As they had reported in the past, the Mac OS will continue to gain the most important modern OS features of Rhapsody, and it will also receive Yellow Box runtime libraries, allowing software developed on Rhapsody to run in the Mac OS, starting with Allegro (due to ship this summer). Next year, Allegro will be replaced by Sonata, which sounds like it'll be more Rhapsody than Mac OS, at least at its core; the big difference between Sonata and Rhapsody will be Sonata's concentration on ease on use above all else, in true Mac OS fashion.
So given that the most important bits of Rhapsody are finding their way into the upcoming versions of the Mac OS, hearing that Rhapsody itself will be primarily a server OS isn't such a big deal. Future versions of the Mac OS will be Rhapsody, at least the way we've been thinking about Rhapsody. The server Rhapsody will only differ in its tools, its price, and its use of the unix command line. (Given that we dig unix, AtAT may just shell out the extra cash for Rhapsody for that added bonus.)
Of course, we'll have to wait until at least the Worldwide Developer Conference to hear anything like this from Apple, but if the official plan is anything like the one proposed by Rumors' sources, we're much more comfortable with the direction things are taking. Programmers will be encouraged to develop for the Yellow Box so that new applications will run at their fastest in both Rhapsody and the Mac OS. Neat.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 3/23/98 episode: March 23, 1998: Despite Steve's frightening declaration that sub-$1000 Macs wouldn't ship until fall, some sources claim that Apple's first such offering is done and sitting in a warehouse. Meanwhile, the Mac OS starts to look more and more like its OS cousin Rhapsody, and Panasonic beats Apple to the punch with a portable DVD player that may or may not be something similar to the mysterious Columbus...
Other scenes from that episode: 561: Artemis on a Leash (3/23/98) What's the single biggest growth market that Apple's currently completely missing out on right now? That's right, the burgeoning sub-$1000 market, which apparently accounts for something like 40% of the sales of home computers these days... 563: First Out of the Gate (3/23/98) One of the many, many rumors about Apple's top-secret "Columbus" project is that it's a teeny little eMate-style handheld that can play DVD movies on an integrated color LCD screen. That particular description sounded great to us-- if Apple could be the first company to release an entertainment appliance that would be the movie equivalent of a Sony Walkman, they'd stand a good chance to break into a whole new area of consumer electronics...
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