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By Ina Fried
Posted on ZDNet News: Nov 4, 2004 6:03:00 PM

With Apple Computer threatening to push his product aside, longtime Mac developer Arlo Rose has expanded his Konfabulator to Windows.

The program, which Rose has sold for $25, lets computers run a variety of small graphical programs, known as widgets, that show information such as stock quotes or the current weather on a Mac desktop. However, in June, Apple announced that it would offer a very similar capability, called Dashboard, in the next version of Mac OS X, code-named Tiger.

A Windows version was already in the works when Apple announced its plans for Dashboard, but the move made the PC option all the more important, said Rose, who once worked at Apple and now heads up a small company called Pixoria. He said the Windows version of Konfabulator will be available Monday.

"We're all diehard Macintosh developers here, but we recognize that Windows is the dominant platform," Rose said in a statement. "When you have a great idea, you want more than 2 percent of the global market to have access to it."

Rose said many of the 800 add-ons, or widgets, already created for Konfabulator will work on the Windows version as well as on Mac OS X.

When Apple announced its plans for Dashboard, Rose accused Apple of being a copycat, a charge the computer maker denied. Apple noted that the concept of widgets has long been a part of Mac OS X and its NextStep OS predecessor.

"The goal isn't to be like anything else," Apple Senior Vice President Phil Schiller said in a June interview. "It's not his stuff. What we've done is ours."

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"and there are tons of lawyers these days just looking to a way to squeeze a few million from a Billion dollar corporation."

there are more then a few billion doolar corporations willing to pay lawyers million to sqish the small businesses, just because they can... (Read the rest)
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Small Developers Just Don't Work Anymore  andyhayes1 | 11/04/04
Not exactly  ndelc | 11/04/04
Not exactly  Lars_z | 11/04/04
I stand corrected  ndelc | 11/04/04
Hog wash.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/04/04
Yeah  Jeff Spicoli | 11/04/04
I agree  voska | 11/05/04
and  JasonL31 | 11/07/04
yes, but I do not see electric companies selling fridges  JasonL31 | 11/07/04
Is this guy nuts?  bidemytime | 11/04/04
hes nuts because  doh123 | 11/04/04
Preloaded software kills competition and capitalism.  Vily Clay | 11/04/04
You have to explain that one....  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/04/04
Did you mean - monopoly is fine = captatlism? (NT)  Vily Clay | 11/04/04
I'll add this  voska | 11/05/04
Bundling is OK, but give me a choice what to bundle ...  Vily Clay | 11/05/04
Sing it with me..  d_jedi | 11/04/04
BRILLIANT !  Jkirk3279 | 11/04/04
Not exactly correct either..  TheWerewolf | 11/04/04
Doesn't StarDock have pretty much the same capability?  gath | 11/04/04
When It's Not Crashing It Does  nikoli | 11/05/04
Apple copying a WINDOWS Program?  James Dean_z | 11/04/04
No, Jimmy  Jkirk3279 | 11/04/04
You can trademark a Title though(NT)  voska | 11/05/04
Apple innovates, the rest salivate; period.  gtdworak | 11/04/04
Ignorance is not seeing that PC's are better now  zeusfuse | 11/05/04
101 Ways To Soak Up RAM  nikoli | 11/05/04
No. Problem.  Harvey Birdman | 11/05/04
did they bolt it to the OS - lol  JasonL31 | 11/07/04

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