Wild unfounded speculation...
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This is just wild speculation on my part (and probably a healthy dose of wishful thinking) but if I was a gambling man I'd lay a bet that one of the secret features of Leopard will be an Apple implementation of QuickSilver. There is good history for this sort of product integration to system with Apple's system software after all (Watson/Sherlock, Widgets anyone?).
Anyway my tenuous theory is supported by the following facts* :
- QuickSilver development has stopped/paused/taken a different path...
- It will be open sourced in the next release, which is expected to be Leopard only...
- The Developer is flat-out at his new job...
* read this thread to get these points
Now, I'm hoping that Apple will repeat the past and not repeat the past by showing some maturity in its approach to the developer. No clue can be found (on the web at least) as to who Nick Jitkoff is working for these days - and thats typical of one of my favourite companies.
Ehh... enough speculation... regular programming will return shortly.
Comments
There's a clue as to who Nick Jitkoff is working for these days at http://wiki.caminobrowser.org/Status_Meetings:2006-09-11:Log
which says "12:51 if you need quick turnaround on things from nick jitkoff, he works at google now."
Posted by: Trevor | November 19, 2007 10:44 AM
Yes, sadly I was updated on Nick's new job shortly after posting this... oh well - Leopard has come and gone and my most wished for "Secret Feature" wasn't included.
On the flip side it's definitely open source these days...
Posted by: Craig | November 19, 2007 11:47 AM