Yes, that’s pretty dumb. Speculation ranges from "write-access FTP is a security risk" to "Apple wants iDisk to look more attractive". I would agree with both.
Text services seem to have gotten a major overhaul in Panther. I now understand why Adobe considers Apple a threat. I mean, scriptable/programmable image processing at the OS level?! And, of course, Text Edit reads/writes Word .doc files as well…
Mac OS 10.3.1 already appears to be on its way.
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