I think this article pretty much nails a key part of it. What Apple wants to do is implement a seamless digital world that Just Works...
Oddly enough, you could accuse them of, once again, stealing ideas from Xerox PARC
It's also a pragmatic vision of what a seamless Object Oriented world would look like. Steve and the Next gang went and made it work. Now they're in a position to take the computing world out of the early 1990s, just like they took it out of the 70's with Macintosh.
Oddly enough, you could accuse them of, once again, stealing ideas from Xerox PARC
It's also a pragmatic vision of what a seamless Object Oriented world would look like. Steve and the Next gang went and made it work. Now they're in a position to take the computing world out of the early 1990s, just like they took it out of the 70's with Macintosh.