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Jobs to preview Leopard during WWDC
WWDC (that's World Wide Developers' Conference) is coming up this August and the Mac web is all atwitter. Apple, in a move that should surprise no one, has announced that a team of execs, headed up by Jobs, will demo Leopard during the WWDC keynote on August 7th.This has become a feature of the WWDC but it is nice to have official confirmation. Until then let the rumors swirl about what tasty morsels will be included in Leopard. I'm hoping that Apple will do away with that pesky Dock and give us a Task Bar, like God intended all OSes to have.
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John Laur said 10:38AM on 6-26-2006
The dock was the "Big Deal" with NeXT. Jobs won't let that one die until he does; you can bet on it.
How about a double-height menubar so all of the crap helper apps I run will all fit on there?
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forbin said 10:47AM on 6-26-2006
task bar?
I'm pretty sure expose gets the job done [in a much cooler way].
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Justin said 10:52AM on 6-26-2006
Do away with the Dock? Hmm.. not sure if I agree with you on this one.
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Joe Jacobs said 10:55AM on 6-26-2006
Yeah, getting rid of the dock is a really screwed up idea.
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Fornya said 11:00AM on 6-26-2006
Do away with the Dock? No thanks. The Dock is there when you need it, it disappears when you don't and you can add and remove anything from it with ease. And as Forbin said, Exposé gives you everything you need with a click in a way that a task bar could never do. Task bars are for Windows OSes.
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Andres said 11:00AM on 6-26-2006
"I'm hoping that Apple will do away with that pesky Dock and give us a Task Bar, like God intended all OSes to have."
That was sarcasm ...right?
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Radu Dutzan said 11:01AM on 6-26-2006
It was a joke, people.
Great, it's now official official. (Steve's word was official enough for me a year ago…)
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Tourian said 11:02AM on 6-26-2006
Dock + Expose = TaskBar pwnage.
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Ronald said 11:02AM on 6-26-2006
Hi Scott,
If you don't like the current Dock, there are plenty of replacement options. I am perfectly happy with it. (Please leave God out of this.)
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Douglas F Shearer said 11:03AM on 6-26-2006
Like Radu, I'm sure Jobs announced this himself during a previous keynote...
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Ken said 11:07AM on 6-26-2006
The dock doubles as a taskbar and as a Quick Launch bar (from the Windows world). Set its size to minimum and magnification to off and you have a Windows-like taskbar (with no text but triple the space for icons).
No matter how different Leopard will be compared to Tiger, such changes as dropping the dock mostly fit in a future integer version OS (11? 12? ..20?)
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Scott McNulty said 11:11AM on 6-26-2006
Folks, I like the Dock. It was a joke (which I am glad some people got at least). :)
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R. Tyler Ballance said 11:13AM on 6-26-2006
What's with the picture? TUAW _must_ have some stock photos with Jobs in them....is he like big foot now? Is a sketch the closest image we can get of this elusive Jobs creature? ;)
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eldt said 11:19AM on 6-26-2006
is there some sort of growth coming out of jobs' left jaw bone?
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Chris Alford said 11:24AM on 6-26-2006
That photo came from the Wall Street Journal, If I remember correctly?
It was before he went on the iDiet.
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Stefan Constantinescu said 11:25AM on 6-26-2006
All I want is a god damn fix to Safari. Flash videos run at 2 FPS when Safari isn't the active window.
The problem doesn't exist in Camino, but then again the fonts aren't as crisp in Camino as they are in Safari. Decisions Decisions!
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Speed Racer said 11:28AM on 6-26-2006
The picture is a stipple portrait from the Wall Street Journal. Most of them are made by her:
http://www.nolinovak.com/index2.html
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Chris said 11:30AM on 6-26-2006
14. You were not supposed to notice that. This is actually a picture used in Oliver Stones new movie about aliens and the truth behind the rise of silicon valley. Shhh.
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dan said 11:33AM on 6-26-2006
I thought Leopard was due to be released at the WWDC?
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Ronak said 11:54AM on 6-26-2006
No dock? Are you crazy? I want MORE docks, so i can have them popping out everywhere!
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