News.Com: Apple to charge for iTools services. [Scripting News]

Apple is delivering on the promise of .Net before Microsoft.  How?  Well, Apple can and does act unilaterally to design and implement products with one goal in mind: making Apple customers happy.  No mucking around with standards and standards organizations, no coercing hardware partners (Intel and AMD) and OEMs (HP, Dell, IBM), no getting in bed with Hollywood.

And you know what?  Apple will make single sign-on work where Microsoft failed for one reason: Apple's customers trust Apple.  That's a problem Microsoft must solve somehow, and clever cryptographic hardware ain't gonna do it.

5:18:19 PM