Apple switches soup for silos, and I’m sad.
While it’s the “modern” way, part of me is disappointed to read about the silo-ing of applications that Apple is looking to enforce in the Mac App store. It is a natural step to mimic iOS (and another step on cross-compatibility), and it echoes the approach Microsoft will have on the Windows 8 store, but when you look back at the data storage on the Apple Newton, there’s a complete 180. For those of you not aware, the Newton stored all your data in a “soup” of information. Think of it like a cloud of data in your PDA. And any application
