Dan Wood: The Eponymous Weblog

Dan Wood is co-owner of Karelia Software, creating programs for the Macintosh computer. He is the father of two kids, lives in the Bay Area of California USA, and prefers bicycles to cars. This site is his weblog, which mostly covers geeky topics like Macs and Mac Programming.

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Fri, 02 Jul 2004

This is a beginning, not an end

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I've been getting a lot of comments from Watson users over the last 24 hours. Most are messages of congratulations and of looking forward to the what the new version will bring.

But others ... well, maybe people weren't really reading the FAQ completely. Some people are reacting as if this is the end of Watson and all that it does. That couldn't be more untrue. There is a screenshot of the program in development (inlined below) at the weblog I pointed to yesterday. No, this isn't a mock-up, this is a real screenshot of real, working code. True, it has not been announced as a product yet, but it is very much real. And Mac users should agree that it looks pretty Mac-like, and pretty Watson-like. And it's built in a technology that is inherently cross-platform, so it would take extra work to not have this function on the Mac!

So please, don't think of this as the End of Watson. Watson is just entering a chrysalis for a transformation.

screenshot of Project Alameda from its weblog