WWDC Keynote Viewed
Wednesday, August 9, 2006 at 8:47AM
OK, now I've seen the presentation I feel a lot happier!
The Mac Pro looks amazing.
The leopard preview was much better when you could see it in action although Time Machine just seems too good to be true 
The external disk drive companies must be overjoyed. The examples given of the scenaros nailed it for me and yes, I have wanted to go back in time to when I knew a file was in a folder - it actually happened again yesterday when I thought I'd backed something up but I hadn't! This will be really big if they can deliver on the promises.
Still undecided about mail stationery but it certainly looked great I coud certainly use notes and todos. Again, for the mormal man in the street or potential switcher, this will look impressive and is a further turning of the screw in helping people jump ship.
iChat looks really useful as well - I love backdrop as one on thereasons I don't use Video chat much is my office looks a complete tip!
The suprising thing to me was that I found I did like was the change of presenters although perhaps too many handovers this time round. Phil and Scott were great and brought anice change to the proceedings. Sensible move by Apple as Steve willhave to step down at some point and I don't see it as that far a stretch to have future "team Apple" keynotes.
Spooky!
Tuesday, August 8, 2006 at 9:28PM Coincidence or Steve and Phil having fun with the audience and showing how close iChat is getting to Sculley's dream of a Knowledge Navigator in 2010?
Steve Jobs and Phill Schiller bring John Sculley's 1987 Knowledge Navigator to life!
Les Pozen has a brilliant post on a co-incidence he noticed during this weeks WWDC keynote!WWDC Keynote Aftermath
Tuesday, August 8, 2006 at 9:11AM Well it's just over 12 hours since the WWDC keynote and I still haven't seen the video. If last years release schedule is anything to go by it may take another day or so or so before a decent resolution version is available. Why oh why don't they seed a HD version using BT? I'll need to reserve judgement until I've seen the video but I got a good feel on the Leopard sneak preview from the Apple site. Some initial thoughts: Mac Pro: Sweet! So in effect, all Mac Pros are now Quad processors! Two thumbs up for the front i/o expansion and the extra HD capacity. I like the option of having a standard configuration then lot's of BTO. Pretty much as expected. I did notice no mention of Front Row IR and Apple remote included with the new MacPro. This has gotta mean that the new Cinema Displays will have the IR sensor and Apple remote and FrontRow as an installable package. xServe: Great! Suprised they didn't rebrand it xMac - bit to similar to iMac I suppose. The keynote skipped quite a bit on the new OSX server which was covered in a press release soon after. Leopard: Little bit dissapointed with the sneak peak. Most of the options discussed (with the exception of the 64 bit stuff) smacks of an evolution of Tiger and not some really cutting edge innovation - OK, Time Machine looks pretty cool! Email Templates - I think I nodded off at that point. For the first time, Apple have kept back some of the key features of the new release. I remember the Tiger preview and nothing was kept secret for that. As it was the developers conference I expected the presentation to be more heavyweight and not pander to the somewhat frivolous nature of some of the updates. And how could he not have "One more Thing" ! So on the whole a slightly disappointing keynote, a sign of which being that I 'm not that disappointed I wasn't there. Things omitted (that might be in the secret list)
- Finder improvements
- Resolution Independant Displays
- Changes to the UI
- BlueRay?
- No statement on virtualisation although BootCamp covered
- No statement on the Next Gen Frontrow - I suppose this is heavily linked in with the new iPod under development so understandable.
- Bitorrent Support
