The short version: If the Finder and Desktop enhancements had been the lesser of the new features instead of the only new features, it would have been a good keynote.
Hey Steve! Talk about a Time Machine! Remember this? It's last year's WWDC when you said you had a lot of cool, "Top Secret" stuff you were putting in Leopard, but couldn't show us because you didn't want "Redmond" to rip it off. Then you showed us a few cutesy things like how to make your own widgets and how you can use iChat video with backdrops.
"Oooo! Look at me! I'm underwater!"
Spaces and Time Machine kept us pacified until January when you said Leopard would be out before Vista. It's a year later and we're all stoked about your promise that, "Leopard will be worth the wait."
Guess what? It wasn't. Excuse me. Allow me to correct my grammar. It ISN'T. (It's still not out.)
Of your Ten Features, half were rehashed from last year's conference. (Pardon me if I don't wet myself over Safari on Windows.) Did you really expect us to get excited about widgets again?
A Finder revamp? Excellent. New desktop features? Wonderful. And...? Where are the "Top Secret Features"?
My birthday is in October. I'd wanted Leopard but now a pony sounds better.
ponies rock.
ReplyDeleteYes they do Brett. Yes they do.
ReplyDeleteespecially the unicorn kind. I like unicorns.
ReplyDeleteI rode one of thems once. I was all excited and everything, but then it just went up and down and up and down and around and around in a circle. Definitely not worth the 25 cents I paid.
ReplyDeleteHere's my thoughts about Macs, and Apple in general:
ReplyDeleteI recognize that Macs are just about the best computers out there. They simply work well, and they have a nice, intuitive feel to them.
However, I don't see anything new coming from Apple lately. I never liked the iPod that much, and no matter how many new versions they make, it's still just an mp3 player. That's it. I've actually been turned off by much of Apple's software lately -- I no longer use iTunes or Quicktime, and I probably won't touch Safari. I know Apple makes some great software, but it has to be useful for me to care. Fancy graphics don't help if the program isn't a quality product. And widgets? What's so special about those? You can get them anywhere nowadays.
If I want fancy looking (I don't), I could get Vista and still be able to use my software. If I want a non-windows platform that has widgets, spaces, finders, nice desktop, etc. then I can just get Ubuntu for free. Basically, I have always liked the idea of using a Mac, and have used them at work occasionally. But I need a good reason to switch, because it will mean losing the ability to play my PC games. If the last couple years are any indication, I don't think I'll ever find that reason to switch. This may be more due to Linux than Apple, but I don't see Apple picking up the slack, either.
Yeah, I think found one between Vista and Leopard goes to Vista.
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