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I don't really understand why they would buy Growl. It wouldn't take long for them to add in to OSX themselves.
by maximusprime 15y ago
I don't really understand why they would buy Growl. It wouldn't take long for them to add in to OSX themselves.
- semanticist 15y agoMany third-party applications use Growl for notifications. Buying Growl and maintaining the API would mean that Mac OS X Margay's exciting new Notification Centre feature would have instant support across a wide number of apps. The actual cost of buying Growl is negligible to Apple.
- JimDabell 15y agoIt's Apple. All they have to do is issue a beta and they'll have plenty of people writing to the new API. The cost of buying Growl isn't just the dollars used to take ownership of the company. You have to integrate the people and the code. For a feature as small as this, it's just plain easier to implement internally.