Comments on: Mac developer looks to Windows to escape Tiger

With Apple planning to offer similar features in its next version of OS X, programmer Arlo Rose moves Konfabulator to Windows.

[roberts2424]

Konfabulator should do Windows

Apple truly ripped these guys. Therefore, they need to pay. Once
more cool area that Apples has destroy. Steve are you listening?
Buy the company and quit stealing.

[S R]

Who's copying?

MAC OS had this feature long ago.. it was called "Desktop
Accessories".

Given that this guy is a prior employee of Apple, and that he has
named his company as "Pixoria", I am curious where he got this
idea from. He can't even name his company a bit on his own. :)

[kxmmxk]

get a grip

What Apple is doing in Tiger is merely re-implementing DAs (desktop accessories) which they had for years and years and years in the old OS until somewhere around OS7ish. Konfabulator merely filled the gap when they stopped using DAs. Apple invented it, not the other way around. And it's perfectly within their right to go back to using them.

Not the Same

Konfabulator and Dashboard aren't even close to the same. He
didn't get ripped. Anyone can write Dashboard widgets with
standard javascript, html, css. You can't with Konfabulator, it's
not standard in any way, shape or form. If I recall correctly, you
also have to buy Konfabulator in order to run/use any of the
widgets. And, Konfabulator isn't/wasn't the most stable thing in
the world. Wish him well in the Windows world but sorry, Apple
didn't screw him.

[unknown unknown]

Apple should stop stepping the toes of third party developers

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People should stop posting when they don't know what they're talking about.

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[bigyahu]

time to pick a new line of business

A smarter businessman would think, 'Hmmm... now both Apple *and* Microsoft are moving into my application space? Even if I can successfully protect my IP (and even Apple was unsuccessful doing that against Microsoft) do I really want to compete against that marketing spend and marketshare?"

Time to find a new line of business, and make the transition as graceful as you can.

Good Riddance, Konfabulator

Your arguments were all Konfabulated. You didn't realize Apple
did this first. And you whined and groaned when they stepped
all over you in the marketplace. Wanna make a real difference?
Join the movements that really matter and learn to compete with
the wolves you take on in the world.

No pity for you.

Don't let the door hit ya on the way out

I have tried to like Roses' products, I really have. i tried
Konfabulator. It just sucked. A slow resource hog. Watson was
much better, faster and more elegant. So, as is typical in our
country today, competition is not to be tolerated. First this
clown cried "unfair" and then when it was pointed out by early
developers of Mac software that Rose himself copied the idea for
his Konfabulator he stoped whinning. But the real sign that he
is a girly man comes with his switch to windows. Why? Because
he can copy someone else's idea to make a buck, but cannot
compete with Apple by making his product better (and let me
tell you there are many who will tell you this software was poorly
written). That is why we outsource Rose's work to India. They
still have capitalism in their blood. Rose! Move out of your
mom's house and make a better cheaper product if you want my
business, or just port your shoddy software to windows. Either
way, you have to earn my dollar if you want it. You haven't
earned it yet by a long shot.

Time to break up Apple

They have a stronger stranglehold on their OS market than MS. I say whats good for the goose...

Konfabulator... nothing new!

Hi there,

I don't know what is the news about this application?

This kind of applications already exist already a long time for the Windows platform.

For instance: Desktop-X and Ave Desk.

Both these application can do a lot more and Ave Desk is also free.

Desktop-X costs money, but is very powerfull.

Konfabulator is light years behind and nothing new.

All this news for it.. it doesn't deserve it.

[zeroplane]

Sorry Desktop Widgets for Windows already exists

Has existed for over 5+ years.

http://www.stardock.com/products/desktopx/

I wouldn't waist my time with a group of Mac programmers trying to program in Windows. Viable alternatives already exist and have been in development for more years than the whole company has existed.

they just have lack of ideals

easyly instead of making add-ons and stuff like that just to change the themes from windows, why they dont make their software compatible with normal PC´s?????

Of course that MAC PC build would give better performance of the OS, but IF it was compatible with all intel & amd, they would get much more profite of instead making a theme version to be apllied on normal windows systems

Borland was first

The concept of a multi-faceted utility that pops up on a keystroke dates back to Borland Sidekick in the pre-GUI days of 8086 PCs. The open-endedness of adding new widgets (and of course the net connectivity of widgets) is the innovation here.