OpenDoc was if I recall correctly, Apple's answer to Microsoft's OLE/ActiveX/Whatever-it's-called-now and from what I recall it was a superior technology. I bel

OpenDoc was if I recall correctly, Apple's answer to Microsoft's OLE/ActiveX/Whatever-it's-called-now and from what I recall it was a superior technology. I believe the core premise was to allow documents to not so much be embedded in one another as to make the document central to the work, rather than the application and the various (application) tooling would become involved when needed. I remember when I first made the switch to Mac around 2005 I did notice the experience of copy/paste between applications was inferior, but I didn't miss it that much. Looking back, I guess that maintaining that level of app integration is a huge amount of work, and there was a huge amount of overhead in managing a doc that in fact is being edited by multiple docs. I don't think I ever thanked anybody for embedding a doc in another doc. I think compared to where we were turn of the century we expect a lot less from copy/paste and I don't think anybody really misses it. Thinking about it now, from what I recall of Microsoft's "Longhorn", which was to become Vista it was trying to get this level of deep application integration to work was probably what set them behind and caused them to release a crocked OS and really put them on the back foot really until recently. I was just a kid at the time so I apologise to anybody more familiar with the story if I'm getting this all completely wrong. I suppose what I'm trying to say is that Steve was probably right about this in the end, and that developer made a fool of itself.