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MJF says what I was thinking. Their press badges are way cooler than ours though!
Technorati tags: leopard, vista, apple
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Anonymous
June 11, 2007
I wouldn't say Leopard is copying Vista, since it's really an upgrade to OSX and many of the features (or at least the capabilities for those features) have been around in OSX for a while. But, it's "not light-years ahead of Vista" as MJF put it and as many Mac fanatics described it (of course without knowing many of the details, they just KNEW it would be). With the iPhone dev kit basically being web-based, boot-camp, and Safari in Windows it doesn't seem like Apple thinks OSX as a platform is important strategically. They could be right, if you buy into the whole "death of the desktop app" idea. But I don't buy into that at all.Anonymous
June 11, 2007
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June 13, 2007
Mary is getting pretty slammed with this article, especially with comments such as: "Dashboard with widgets. Isn’t this like the Vista Sidebar with gadgets?" She really should have a working knowledge of OS X before making comments like that which will inevitably be picked up by a rabid Apple fanbase (I like Apple but not to the point of blindness). Admittedly the keynote was disappointing. I'm pleased the focus at WWDC is on software and Leopard, but from the presentation I can't help but feel Leopard is not all it's cracked up to be, and the whole 3-D dock thing, with blurring behind it, IS very similar to Vista Aero, and Apple definitely lose points for that. As far as I'm concerned the current dock is one of the best things about OS X and aside from Time Machine, Leopard would add very little to my day-to-day use and processes.Anonymous
June 14, 2007
yeah, seems like she's annoyed the Apple fanboys and I can see why - always tricky to comment on something unless you've really had a play with it. that was my excuse for buying a MacBook Pro anyway :) the keynote was disappointing which is a good sign to all of us - Steve is usually awesome but how much of that is down to the amazing stuff Jon Ive gives him to show? thought for the dayAnonymous
June 16, 2007
No, her article was full of simple technical errors. Like saying Leopard was 64-bit only, or implying that CoverFlow and Flip3d were even remotely similar. They don't even do the same job, at all. Or implying window's thumbnails were interactive when comparing to QuickLook. The thing that really befuddled people was the 64-bit only comment. She also missed the fact most of the features are already in Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 just addressed some of the issues/made them better (which was the entire point of the spotlight thing being mentioned, people hated the 10.4 spotlight results window being in a separate process). And no, WWDC was about Leopard. It was a developer conference. All you saw was the keynote to that conference.Anonymous
June 17, 2007
That being the case then Rosyna, did any of the surprise new features that Steve had promised appear outside of the keynote?Anonymous
June 17, 2007
Apple has strict NDA policies. But yes, there was a ton of stuff outside of the keynote mentioned at the actual sessions, which is also why it is all NDA'd. If Apple or someone released info publicly, it's no longer under NDA. Here's some stuff that wasn't in the keynote too http://developer.apple.com/leopard/overview/ But the biggest things are the new features in the runtime, it's going to make a lot of developers lives a lot easier as it removes some of the super-tedious code. Bindings and KVC helped a lot, but it gets much better in Leopard.Anonymous
June 25, 2007
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