Ditto for RealNetworks. Instead, Jobs outfoxed Gates and Glaser. The new iBook is simply the best consumer laptop on the market today. Dell, Compaq and the others should be ashamed they haven't come close to building a laptop this cool and this price. There are so many useful things your applications can do with the dock.
Web pages can show the downloading process, with a minimized web page view and a progress bar.
Minimised Finder windows can show the folder's name. And an Otello game should tell me when it's my turn via the dock. Especially when I turn up the difficulty level all the way, and it takes, like, forever before the computer will respond. Mail.app have already show us it can be done for the application icon. Movie Player have already show us it can be done for the minimized window icon.