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Dashboard Not a Konfabulator Rip-off

Posted by pudge on from the so-sayeth-thou dept.

MacNN writes "John Gruber says the origins of Apple's Dashboard technology, announced as part of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger earlier this week, are not with Arlo Rose's Konfabulator, but with Apple's original Desk Accessories and that Apple's Webcore-based implementation will allow many more developers/designers to create 'gadgets' much more easily and that Dashboard's 'gadgets' will offer much better performance: 'Dashboard is not a rip-off of Konfabulator. Yes, they are doing very much the same thing. But what it is that they're doing was not an original idea to Konfabulator. The scope of a 'widget' is very much the modern-day equivalent of a desk accessory.'"

2 of 83 comments (clear)

  1. If it walks like a duck, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    quacks like a duck,
    smells like a duck, and
    shits like a duck

    it's a duck!

  2. Who cares what this guy thinks? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    He's just some schmuck with a blog! Wait until 10.4 gets released and make up your own mind. In the meantime, download and pay fees for konfab.