tom tomwhoreslacknet arstechnica wwwarstechnicacom saw mention wired article goes many wonderfull ways apple showing love respect users httpwwwwiredcomnewsmac021255539500html good rundown whys whatfores httparstechnicacomreviews02q3macosx102macosx1025html true form industrious third party developers saw could gain competitive advantage supporting capable user interface applications apples private menu extras apis reverse engineered leveraged great effect architecture popular application managing predefined sets menu extras third party otherwise development changed release jaguarbut private apis changed third party developers would updated applications work new apis resigned choosing use private apis first place actually happened jaguar apple added code forcibly exclude nonapple menu extras parts api change menu extra loaded compared hardcoded list known menu extras apple menu extra list allowed load easy laugh steve ballmers sweatsoaked gyrations chants developers developers developers microsoft clearly understands something apple still struggling platform vendors best interest encourage development platform apples case doesnt mean bend backwards make every single system service ui element pluggable via public apis thats clearly lot work something needs number one priority os infancy meantime third party developers want sell market requires desired functionality added unsupported ways must prepared maintenance consequences decisions apple go wayto actually expend developer effortto stop third party developers still failing provide supported alternative incredibly foolish wed 2 oct 2002 183728 0400 edt apple saucedagain