> As I see it, OpenDoc's entire purpose was to benefit the user, as it put the focus on the user's intent and document rather than on the applications used to a

> As I see it, OpenDoc's entire purpose was to benefit the user, as it put the focus on the user's intent and document rather than on the applications used to assemble it. That was the purpose, and I wish we had a real instance of that vision today but OpenDoc was never going to deliver. > This was actually a fairly disastrous response from Steve Jobs that really hurt the company. Not really. It was much better than lying, and appearing to support OpenDoc only to drop it later would have been far worse for the developers who would have invested been more into it and Apple.