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Recent commentary about the future of the Macintosh operating system has left the world confused. An anonymous Apple executive tried to ease that confusion with this statement:
"We should have just announced that we were taking the product that was code-named Rhapsody and officially calling it Mac OS X, shipping in 1999 with the Carbon APIs to ease porting efforts, and the Blue Box for existing binaries. OK, never mind how it's being spun, what really happened? From my point of view, a rather large cloud was lifted over the future of the Mac OS. Apple decided, wisely, to go with a continuous approach rather than ask developers to commit major resources to supporting …