{"id":858,"date":"2008-02-24T19:30:27","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T02:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.macnightowl.com\/2008\/02\/24\/newsletter-430-preview-apple-and-microsoft-wheres-the-trust\/"},"modified":"2008-03-25T07:03:45","modified_gmt":"2008-03-25T14:03:45","slug":"newsletter-430-preview-apple-and-microsoft-wheres-the-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2008\/02\/newsletter-430-preview-apple-and-microsoft-wheres-the-trust\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter #430 Preview: Apple and Microsoft: Where&#8217;s the Trust?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s clear that trust is hard to earn, and extremely easy to lose. Here in the U.S., we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t trust government, and we certainly wonder about those lavish promises the presidential candidates are making that will be promptly forgotten the day after the election.<\/p>\n<p>With the endless battle between Apple and Microsoft taking on new directions, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s important to consider just how much of their PR chatter can be believed.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the 1990s, for example, Apple made all sorts of promises, but few came to pass, and where they did, the products were often something less-than-spectacular. Most of you remember Copland, for example, the vision of a world-class operating system that was killed during the fitful start of its initial beta stage.<\/p>\n<p>When Steve Jobs returned and took control of the company, he also made promises that were difficult to deliver, such as the first iteration of Mac OS X, known as Rhapsody. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not that Apple couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t produce what was essentially an updated version of its NeXT operating system, but Apple\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s key software developers balked. They didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to undergo the time and expense to do major rejiggering of their applications.<\/p>\n<p>That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s why Apple went back to the drawing board, and created Mac OS X\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Aqua interface, a modern updating of the original Mac\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s look and feel.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Click here to read the rest of the story\" href=\"http:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/newsletter\/2008\/02\/24\/newsletter-issue-430\/#feel\">Story continued in this week&#8217;s Tech Night Owl Newsletter.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s clear that trust is hard to earn, and extremely easy to lose. 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