That Apple has finally opened it's API for some third-party limited programming is now yesterday's news. What is interesting is that it took this long for them to realize they are no longer simply a computer maker, but a consumer products company of which the computer is becoming a smaller part.

That Michael McGuire, an analyst who follows Apple for Gartner Group suggested that Apple had planned a development kit all along is doubtful, this from a company that could have staked out a major share of the computer market back when Windows 2.5 was the terror we all had to deal with, this was Jobs at the helm then as now, hold on too tight and it will ooze out of your hands.

So, yippie for the API it will foster a development community which will only grow more Apple's...