We will develop standard APIs for controlling net based protocols from all levels of software, from C applications to scripts. There's been too much re-invention going on in this market. FTP, HTTP, Telnet, Gopher, etc. are standard protocols that must be supported at the shared library level, and accessible to all software running on the platform. In terms of market share, we want to at least hold the approximately 20-percent share that the Mac platform enjoys in the Internet world, and increase the share in this space by five percent in the next year. This is a good financial strategy because the growth in the net is much greater than growth in other market segments.
Profits are available here that are elusive elsewhere.
Perhaps most important, we will develop versions of all our standards for deployment on Windows and perhaps Unix. We will offer this software to Microsoft for distribution with Windows. Having listened carefully, I believe Microsoft is open to supporting standards that come from the Mac development community. It's clearly in the interests of the Mac community to see our ideas become broadly popular, not just for Mac users. I believe, with Microsoft and other's support, cross-platform web standards can come from the Mac community, as they have come from the Unix community.