Apple news!

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Sun Sep 15 2002 - 18:13:01 EDT


Interesting news.

> A P P L E D E V E L O P E R C O N N E C T I O N 1
> N E W S
>
> Issue 318 September 13, 2002
>[3] Mac OS X-Only Booting For 2003
>
>Starting in January 2003, all new Mac models will only boot into Mac
>OS X as the start-up operating system, though they will retain the
>ability to run most Mac OS 9 applications through Apple's bundled
>"Classic" software. There are nearly 4,000 native applications now
>available for Mac OS X.
>http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2002/sep/10macosx.html

Great news. How many of those 4,000 allow Unicode input? AppleWorks
doesn't. Adobe products don't. Office X doesn't.

We wait more or less patiently.

On the other hand, OmniWeb is by far and away the finest Unicode
browser I've ever seen.

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