Charles Haddad rakes Apple over the coals for the way it has treated developers in the past -- especially when it shuts them out of the market by stealing their ideas and rolling them into its standard package. [via Scripting News] However, Haddad also notes that Apple has, at the same time, improved the lives of all its developers by increasing the appeal of its systems -- more people buy Macs because of the quality software they ship with. Haddad also has an excellent suggestion along these lines:
 Apple would do well to use its Macs as a platform to showcase the best of third-party software. It's already doing so to some extent: The latest Macs are shipping with OmniGroup's excellent shareware outliner and graphing programs. But here again, PCs have done better, typically shipping with far more programs than the Mac. 
Yeah. Why not ship Radio with every Mac? :-)
Also: LaunchBar and Mozilla (dump IE, please) and Fetch and maybe SBook and MacJournal. Shareware could still ship as demo versions that require users to pay -- this way Apple wouldn't have to raise the price of its systems but would probably increase the number of people who use shareware. It would also save us lots of downloading time.
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