Well, just having sat through my early afternoon catching up on the WWDC keynote address via live blogs, I must say that it was fairly boring and not much was newsworthy.
To preface there were a few exciting items for OSX Leopard. I rather liked the new finder and iChat. Though finder’s new found capabilities, or at least the shiny ones, are just going back through time and reusing an old idea; coverflow.
Steveo brought up a back-up program, called time machine at one point. He found it amazing but its basically a built in one touch backup software. Sure haven’t seen any of those before. But the metaphor of the time machine was well and alive throughout the rest of his performance. It seems that audience reactions were meager, and the whole thing certainly left me not blown away. Much of what he debuted for the new OSX is just rehashing old ideas, a few new little morsels that were relatively uninspired, and a few cracks on windows, especially vista (a platform which in all fairness really just reinvented the wheel for itself unlike the new OSX). Which, I should point out, that Mr. Jobs sided back up to in hopes of raising Apple’s minuscule stakes in the browser market by introducing Safari for pc’s. Hooray. (Can you feel my enthusiasm? I can’t).
