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From the LinkedIn profile of the guy who implemented Safari RSS: Social-Software Introvert Apple, Inc. February 2004 – January 2008 (4 years) Part of a very
by blumentopf 14y ago
From the LinkedIn profile of the guy who implemented Safari RSS:
Social-Software Introvert
Apple, Inc.
February 2004 – January 2008 (4 years)
Part of a very small team that implemented the news-reading (RSS/Atom) features of the Safari browser in Mac OS X 10.4, and the public news-reading framework for 10.5, used by Mail and 3rd party applications as well as Safari. I also prototyped some wild and crazy social-software applications I can't talk about here, and researched technologies like social networking, P2P, identity systems, and delta encoding.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/jensalfke http://www.linkedin.com/in/jensalfke
Obviously there's noone at Apple picking up the slack that Jens Alfke left behind. He's stated repeatedly on his blog that Apple is decidedly not a social software company. Which is ultimately the reason why they removed these features. The reason is not that "RSS is the past" bullshit.
- cpleppert 14y agoWait.. so the reason Apple removed RSS was they don't have the talent to implement RSS? Apple simply couldn't figure out to implement RSS in a way that they liked. I am sure they had lots of data about the usage of RSS in Safari and mail. Yeah they should have offered an export option, but I for one think RSS isn't going anywhere as a user facing technology. As for not being a social software company, well; they want to build social features around existing applications and platforms. Things like iCloud sharing and even deeper integration of iMessage into existing applications are coming.
- blumentopf 14y agoCheck out Jens Alfke's blog post when he left Apple, I really can't say this better than he did: http://web.archive.org/web/20110714114434/http://jens.mooseyard.com/2008/01/gone-indie/ http://web.archive.org/web/20110714114434/http://jens.moosey...