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June 14th, 2008 Daniel Eran Dilger Regular readers will recall that when Safari for Windows shipped, I suggested Apple was likely looking to move its Mac OS X Cocoa development model into the Windows arena in order to broaden Cocoa’s visibility and adoption. Over the last year, I’ve also outlined Apple’s efforts to starve Adobe’s Flash and AIR (and by extension, Microsoft’s me-too Flash plugin cal

Why can't the music industry just adopt an open standard for DRM? The simple answer is that the basic concept of interoperable DRM makes no sense. Since the point of DRM is to limit interoperability by using secrets, there is no open way to deliver a DRM system that does what it's supposed to do. If it were open, then it wouldn't be secret. When the secrets get out, it's now open, but it no longer

Building upon technology acquired from NeXT, Apple has leveraged open source software to make rapid progress in developing a new server business. Along the way however, Apple was forced to make major changes to its initial plans for using NeXT technology. Between 1996 and 2000, the market’s rejection of OpenStep and then Yellow Box resulted in Apple significantly reworking Mac OS X to serve its ow