Leopard: what we got and what we wanted

Spaces = yay. Stationary = just another reason Mail.app sucks.

Didn't hear anything about the predicted move from text to more icons....for those of us who were educated to read text instead of petrographs, sanscript, icons are a ban to our existence. My language is not about little drawings.

Predicted:

" Instead of words down the side i.e. applications, system preferences... there are icons of each at a user defined size (80 x 80 default). So for applications there is the global application icon, and next to the hits and so on." Please tell me it isn't true!

Also, wonder how the Developers liked the Web Clip concept?

Codetek's virtual desktop has been doing a better job than Spaces will do for years already.

Spotlight indexing of network drives? Already possible in Tiger using a simple command from the terminal. More granular searching? Try EasyFind. App launching? It'll be no match for Quicksilver's power.

Stationery seems like a terrible idea to me but then I don't bother with Mail since Thunderbird is so much better.

Time Machine looks good, probably the only real reason I'd want to upgrade to Leopard right now.

Enough of the Microsoft bashing Apple, you're also ripping off ideas and calling them your own. I'm hoping the 'top secret' features are a lot more impressive than the hyped up bits in the Leopard preview.

It's quite clear that 10.5 will ship with either a brand new Finder, or a whole different file browser. In the keynote demo of Time Machine, as someone else pointed out, the guy says "I'm switching to Finder. So this is the standard Finder." That suggests some non-standerd Finder, or an alternative to Finder, is out there, somewhere. Also, when talking about Universal Access, Jobs says "we've got some much better and faster ways to navigate around the whole system." That might refer to a Finder replacement, too. Of course, keeping the Finder replacement under wraps is a very good idea. That way, it will take Redmont another five years to catch up.

I do agree that those Vista jabs are getting stale. Plus, it sound juvenile. "My dad can kick your dad's arse" kind of statement.

Though, on the flipside, when OS's compete, we win. (or should....). I think Apple makes that point because they know that there are no other truly consumer user friendly OS's that can compete with Windows. (Yes, of course 'nix are getting better each day...)

At the end of the day it's good for Apple and Microsoft to jab and make fun of each other. Keeps the programmers and architects riled in their cages, and that really is a good thing. ;)

I wanted better mobile device support and an update isync. There are a ton of people out there who use Palm devices and plenty of others who use next-gen mobile phones.

Calendar supports categories, Palm Supports categories.
Addressbook as groups, Palm has groups.

There should be no reason why Palm devices or any other mobile device should require 3rd party support like markspace if Apple plans on having iSync. Either take the time to fully develop it and the supprting wireless technologies or don't bother.

Remember that Apple was recently looking at ZFS.

http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=14513

I'm wagering that ZFS is totally new to most of you -- but if they, indeed, have ported ZFS, or at least a subset of its features, to Apple hardware, it's alot easier to understand TimeMachine's capabilities.

Basically, at the cost of more disk space, whenever you change a file, it creates the new version, but leaves the old one in place, hidden. At any point, you can say "forget about this new version, I want to use that old one", and it will automatically retrieve it for you. The same thing works for deletions. No seperate drive -- or, even, seperate partition -- is needed.

ZFS has alot of other fun features, too. It's an exciting file system.

I can't believe how many people think that tabs are a great UI enhancement. They are completely useless in a well designed window based OS like Macintosh OS X. Have you ever heard of Expose? This is a great UI enhancement. It totally eliminates the need for tabs. With Expose you are able to get a view of every open window with the press of a single button. Then you can use the arrow keys or the mouse to select the window you want. Somebody please name one advantage of tabs keeping in mind that with Expose, you can open 40 different windows and find the one you want much faster than if you were using tabs!

I wish Apple had said "Don't you just hate that image spam? We've improved filters!" instead of some weird e-mail bloating stationery... I would LOVE to know how large mails get with that turned on.

Or widescreen settings, or something... but not two measly additions...

Also, Virtuedesktops does a great job and gives us NOW what is touted as a 'Spaces' feature in spring 2007!

No word on fixing Finder annoyances, no really cool innovations (Time Machine is nice eye candy but be honest, how many of you have REALLY deleted stuff that needed such an elaborate means of retrieving it?), no word on performance tweaks on Intel-Macs...

On what I have seen so far, I find it hard to justify paying 129 euros (If they don't up the price on OS X, that is) for Leopard, come 2007.

So all in all I'm pretty disappointed (the Mac Pro is very nice though) and won't be holding my breath on what's now deemed too early to show and TOP SECRET by Apple.

I'd asked friends to sms text me any cool stuff, since I wasn't home yesterday during the keynote. When no one did I'd already figured something was wrong... :/

Also it's time they laid off the Vista jibes, it's getting old. If anything, they'll be shipping AFTER Vista.

I read something dumb as a lead on News.com, which I'll quote here:

"The new Mac OS is due after Vista. But if the Windows update slips again, Apple could get in first."

Well duh.

#11, the point isn't that we won't use it; it's that it will be used on us. HTML email is bad stuff. The vast majority of email users agree.