As for Dashboard, the only saving grace of this ripoff is that, for once, Apple appears to have done the knock-off better than the original. As a product to customers, it's identical to Konfabulator-- not much argument there. But the underlying technologies draw on a lot of existing Apple technologies that should let it surpass the original work. So I guess it's only a "ripoff" if you think that "look and feel", "product design", and "UI metaphors" have any inherent value.
In all the talks of rip-offs, how come no one mentions stattoo or the Stardock product. Why is it always only Dashboard vs Konfab, when the Stardock product was out before Konfab was?
In all the talks of rip-offs, how come no one mentions stattoo or the Stardock product. Why is it always only Dashboard vs Konfab, when the Stardock product was out before Konfab was?
yea, and what about all of the linux guys going to insane lengths (and comeing verry close in some cases) to duplicateing osx on x86 linux...
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Originally posted by henryblackman
...It's difficult to replace something that works "well enough" - which is why Windows is difficult to replace with OS X.
(stuffs another $10 in the preverbial piggy bank for a mac)
agreed...
Originally posted by Booga
As for Dashboard, the only saving grace of this ripoff is that, for once, Apple appears to have done the knock-off better than the original. As a product to customers, it's identical to Konfabulator-- not much argument there. But the underlying technologies draw on a lot of existing Apple technologies that should let it surpass the original work. So I guess it's only a "ripoff" if you think that "look and feel", "product design", and "UI metaphors" have any inherent value.
In all the talks of rip-offs, how come no one mentions stattoo or the Stardock product. Why is it always only Dashboard vs Konfab, when the Stardock product was out before Konfab was?
Originally posted by kupan787
In all the talks of rip-offs, how come no one mentions stattoo or the Stardock product. Why is it always only Dashboard vs Konfab, when the Stardock product was out before Konfab was?
yea, and what about all of the linux guys going to insane lengths (and comeing verry close in some cases) to duplicateing osx on x86 linux...
Originally posted by Placebo
Is it possible for me to code an XHTML page with a Shockwave doc in it, and have it be a widget? Flash would be so easy to make widgets with...
Yes... everything you can read with Safari, you can make a widget out of it!