I for one am not suprised that Apple chose to make their own. The situation with Konquerer isn't really relevent here. Apple took the Konquerer engine and ported it to Obj-C / Cocoa. There is no advantage to porting KOffice / OpenOffice to Obj-C / Cocoa. They would have had to use the standard frameworks etc, and make it look Mac-like, etc and it would have been simpler to write it from scratch like they did.
I built a PC for Christmas because I simply couldn't afford to buy a new Mac. My brother bought a PC because he couldn't afford to buy a Mac. My grandmother bought a PC becase she couldn't afford to buy a Mac. There's 3 sales lost because of the high price of Macs.
I love my Macs, but they're simply too expensive for students.
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I for one am not suprised that Apple chose to make their own. The situation with Konquerer isn't really relevent here. Apple took the Konquerer engine and ported it to Obj-C / Cocoa. There is no advantage to porting KOffice / OpenOffice to Obj-C / Cocoa. They would have had to use the standard frameworks etc, and make it look Mac-like, etc and it would have been simpler to write it from scratch like they did.
Just my 2c.
-- SirG3
I built a PC for Christmas because I simply couldn't afford to buy a new Mac. My brother bought a PC because he couldn't afford to buy a Mac. My grandmother bought a PC becase she couldn't afford to buy a Mac. There's 3 sales lost because of the high price of Macs.
I love my Macs, but they're simply too expensive for students.
-- SirG3