March 10, 2003
Positively Naked NetPositive
I found this while going through some old pics from Be. It's a knock-off of the icon for the old BeOS browser, NetPositive. Compare Danger's position in the handheld hardware/software/services market (in relation to Nokia) to Be, Inc.'s position in the web browser market (in relation to MS IE). This reminds me of one distinct day, as I was fixing some rendering bug in NetPositive (read: "hacking it to handle crappy HTTP or HTML"), I ran across an article claiming that Microsoft had around 1000 people working on IE. Later that night I spent some time browsing the API documentation for the massive DirectX and ActiveX controls available for IE developers. I began to feel like NetPositive was a fleck of cork being rolled along an endless sea. It was afloat, but that's about it.
I'm not saying that the hero isn't influential, but that there is fighting and there is fodder.
Posted by Trevor F Smith at March 10, 2003 04:57 PM | TrackBack