If you are at all interested in Macintosh computers, you will love the Steve Jobs keynote speech in streaming video.
Highlights: New professional machines. Making fun of Microsoft who are stealing even more blatantly than ever before (seriously, it is getting ridiculous). And preview of the next OS, which includes some features which interest me quite a bit more than I had expected, to be frank. Lovely stuff.
What do you mean getting ridiculous? I am not aware of a single original idea in computing that this 5 billion a year research organisation has put to market? From a creative standpoint Microsoft has always been a joke. Not that Apple is that much more inventive, but they are at least trying. And at least they excel at industrial design.
ReplyDeleteSteve's keynote is a highlight of the year, but sadly it was a bit of a letdown this WWDC. My interpretation of it is that stuff that was meant to be announced on Monday was cancelled at the last minute, which only means there will be interesting announcements this autumn.
I found some of the features for Leopard interesting, but not something to motivate me to upgrade from Tiger. Hopefully features that will motivate me to upgrade will come about later.
ReplyDeleteA recentl Cringely Report suggested that it might be able to run Windoze apps without Windoze installed. That'd be cool.
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rI think Steve was playing to the gallery / mob mentality when he made some of those comments... Windows NT and post NT Windows were brand new OS and not DOS booted like 95 or even 98... and it is actually a good thing for an architecture to stand the test of time and remain backward compatible or upgradable... For that matter, isn't OS X (Tiger series) just a 'skin' on top of a off-the-shelf Unix? No different from KDE or GNome based Linux'es...
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