Ken Case: We developed applications for the NeXT platform because we found it wasĪn incredibly productive development environment for us: it was a How close to NeXT do you find OSX today? Are there features (as a user and developer) that you had on NeXT but you miss on OSX? What are your favorite features on OSX and what features do you think that OSX lacks? They make available to their own application developers.ģ. Information and API available to third party application developers as
(because they’re hopefully providing better solutions thanĪverage)–but I don’t see it as fundamentally different from any otherĬompetition from any other source, as long as they make the same This may make them better competition than the average competitor
This allows them to innovate in ways that involve the complete integrated package, rather than being limited to innovation within each level. Provide a complete integrated solution which includes the hardware, the operating system, and a number of (bundled and unbundled) applications. Ken Case: Apple is unique among mass-market computer companies in that they Do you think that Apple, as the producer of the OS, should also be a major application creator? Do you think that these “iApps” will create problems in the development community and limit their profits in the long run? On a similar subject, recently Apple stirred up some controversy online with its release of the new version of Sherlock, which does most of what the popular shareware app Watson does. Fortunately, I think we’ll be there soon!Ģ. Until we finish our work on newer web standards, we’re our own worst enemy: I don’t believe that other browsers are pulling any of ourĬustomers away from OmniWeb, but that we’re pushing our own customers away from OmniWeb while that work remains incomplete. I don’t really see Safari as competition to OmniWeb: they’re aiming at capturing the entry-level browser user (that currently sticks with theīundled Internet Explorer), while we sell OmniWeb to those who really want the most efficient, powerful browsing experience possible. Quite fast, small, and easy to use (much like the new 12″ PowerBook), and I’m very glad to see Apple basing their product on standards and
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Safari appears to be a great alternative to Internet Explorer as a free web browser which ships with the operating system. OmniWeb’s biggest weakness has been a lack of compatibility with some web pages, and solving this by implementing newer web standards is the focus of our current efforts on OmniWeb. Ken Case: OmniWeb is a browser which provides a very rich browsing experience, and is a very successful product for us despite free competition from the web industry’s giants, Microsoft and Netscape. What market problems would you think this release from Apple will bring to your product? Is the OSX community big enough for seven browsers, especially after the Safari release? Recently, Apple released Safari, which seems to have already captured the interest of the OSX userbase. OmniGroup’s best known product is OmniWeb, a modern web browser for OSX. Today, we talked to its CEO, Ken Case, about the company and its products, Apple’s strategies, Safari and the future.ġ. Omni Group today is a MacOSX-only company, writting high quality applications in Cocoa, apps like OmniWeb, OmniGraffle, OmniOutliner and 3D game ports. Omni Group is well known to most Mac users and NeXT ones back in the day.
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