Developer of Konfabulator upset

Poor guy.

Check out his site, too.

Crazy stuff.

So **** true. Why would a developer want to create programs for Apple's OS X platform if Apple steals the developer's idea and sells it integrated in their own system.
Well, at least the consumer gets it free when he/she upgrades the system. So that's good for us, but bad for developers.

This is exactly what Microsoft is doing - intergration. Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer, intergrated. Internet Explorer is built into their system to not give Firefox ect. a chance. Windows Media Player, not giving RealPlayer or Quicktime a chance.

Apple is bundling Dashboard into their OS to give Konfabulator no chance. They do that with Quicktime, and Safari, but in a different way - Finder and Safari are not intergrated, so you can use whatever browser, and you can not use Safari. That's why Microsoft is in so much legal heat.

Apple, I think you have dissapointed a lot of people.

Yeah that was a real surprise for me also.. it's not necessary.. so Im not sure why Apple did it. It's a fun widgit program that, sure can have a lot of use, but really it's not necessary.. Im really curious as to how this is all going to go. I really enjoy Apple's work, but this time.. they better buy out Konfabulator, or else I think there is going to be a lot of heat on them. I've used Konfabulator for quite some time.. I have even written a widgit for it, that gets a pretty good amount of use.. there is a big community of users.. Im not sure why they thought this would go unnoticed.

I thought Dashboard looked familiar...

Well I as a developer (lazy as I may be), have worried about a larger developer taking the action away. I created the first Macintosh AIM bot, and now there are quite a few. Even ones for iChat. I created the first macintosh Halo Spawn timer, and now there are tons... (most released a week after mine). I don't really care much. My apps are freeware and aside from FSBot all in beta stages. Evur is the only real applications we have been putting alot of time into.

Developers need to realize good ideas don't stick around their idea for long. Someone else will take it. and youve gota get on the ball and beat the competition. Or atleast patent it?