Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Michelle Steiner Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Newsreaders =?UTF-8?Q?=21=C2=A1=21?= Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 19:13:25 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 14 Message-ID: <031120131913257068%foo@bar.com> References: <1lbll8q.sm5jc4p4e5ecN%jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz> <1lblws8.8epkxihf8otuN%jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz> <1lbmhib.15zjg4s1ib1d4vN%jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz> <1lbml3j.1hc6k8z1gydbx6N%jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz> <021120131212312665%nospam@nospam.invalid> <021120131247157686%nospam@nospam.invalid> <021120131927268318%nospam@nospam.invalid> <021120132103509952%michelle@michelle.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="8b819003531285591ae70ba618133493"; logging-data="25215"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+fU6pqSJ2w26uHcDawIyjJW/nr5OZEwPg=" User-Agent: Thoth/1.9.0 (Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:KS5+YHG8j/4ZKDNsPMjPMNLgfzY= Mail-Copies-To: nobody Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:51821 In article , Jolly Roger wrote: > > The commonly accepted definition of a Mac application is one written > > for the Macintosh, using Apple's API's (which means that they use > > Apple's GUI). nospam is right. > > No way. > > If you think the only area Apple chose to develop APIs was the user > interface, you'd be so wrong you might be wise to consider comedy for a > career. ; ) No, I said that the GUI is a subset of the APIs.