WWDC 2007
Steve Jobs just finished his WWDC keynote. Nothing too amazing was revealed. The “One More Thing” is porting Safari to run on Windows Vista which I’m puzzled by. What is the Apple strategy in that I wonder? I used iTunes when I was a Windows user and I still use iTunes as a Mac OS X user. But I don’t and never have used Safari as my main browser. It is a decent browser but Firefox is my choice, Windows and Mac OS X.
More importantly is the news that 3rd party apps will be supported on the iPhone through “web 2.0 ajax” (read; HTML, CSS and JavaScript) running in Safari. There will be hooks for web-developers into the internals of iPhone; contact list, voice call initiation etc. A nice solution for us web developers but I’ll bet mobile phone developers and desktop developers are not going to be convinced.
Time Machine looks good though. Wireless backup is a nice idea. Also Leopard will be fully 64bit. EA and iD committed to releasing games on Mac OS X which is nice. Boot Camp will go RTM in Leopard which is nice. Spaces (virtual desktops) is handy. Upgrades to the Dock and Desktop (something called stacks which I’m not sure is really useful.)
No mention of ZFS or Windows apps running alongside Mac OS X apps.
There was a good Vista joke:
Leopard shipping in October. Basic version, $129. Premium version, $129. Business version, $129, Enterprise version $129. Ultimate version, $129.
Decent price and just one version. Take note Microsoft.
Frankly I am happy with the news. Nothing revolutionary, nothing really new. We don’t need more new stuff, we need to work on what we already have.
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