Rate the Keynote

First of all, Leopard is gonna be much more important than you think. As a developer, I'm dying to get my hands into XCode 3, and start integrating core animation effects in my apps. The polished and profesional UI you're gonna get from mac apps are going to make windows' look like they come from the 80's. If you toss in exposé, spaces, stacks, et al, you have a whole new ball game in how you use a computer*.

Second, the mac line (except for the mini) is quite up to date. Santa rosa in MBP, the quite new 24' iMac.. they arent going to be replaced short term. Expect new Macbooks after september, for the Xmas campaing, and with them, maybe a new mini, with an iPhonesque look.

Third.. there was something pulled out from this presentation. Both 'One more thing' things were really the same announcement (new safari, for the mac, iphone and windows) and could have been included in the leopard talk quite easily. European journalists where going to be invited to the keynote, and that only happens in big launches. At the last minute, apple retracted and is meeting them in the apple expo in Paris. Throw that two pieces together, and it starts looking like there was "one more thing" that didn't make it to the final keynote.

Expect something big in Apple Expo this september, but meanwhile, pass me the Leopard beta, cause i need to try this core animation goodness by myself.

* Please apple, put into it some gesture driven interface, like the iPhone tactile interface, and you could be talking 'revolutionary'. Mouse and keyboard are getting really old.

Haha! "Apple's jumped the shark!" I like that proclamation, though I don't think it's quite true... yet.

I switched to Apple from PC about 4 years ago and have never looked back. But 2 really lame-o keynotes in a row, with no new products have left me really disappointed.

A super expensive phone is coming that I think is going to be really cool -- but the price and limitations (are you kidding me with the edge network?!) mean I'm probably going to get a windows mobile phone instead.

I think the days of "and the best thing -- it's available today" are over. And that sucks. Seriously.

I still can't get over how much time was spent rehashing features that we saw A YEAR AGO!!

Feels like they're betting the entire company on the damn phone. But the phone only rocks when it plays well with the rest of the Apple Inc hardware and software and that's all getting sooooo old.

Jumped the shark? Not yet. But Fonzie's got gas in the tank and he's revving his engine...

and why does the finder look like Vista with all that see-through stuff???

Completely underwhelmed - Apple has "jumped the shark".

Leopard - transparent windows chrome; where have I seen that before. Lemee think...Ah Vista.

Document previews in the file manager (finder); where have I seen that before. Lemee think...Ah Vista.

Cupertino's photocopiers have apparently been started.

The last three WWDCs have involved hardware.

The last three WWDCs have involved iLife. (Which DO have plugins and the like in them.)

Everything else you say, I agree with. The fact is, Apple is now moving away from the (if you'll excuse the term) "Personal Computer" realm and seeming to move more towards the embedded realm.

That's just how I see it.

What's up with all the disappointment about no new hardware? This for WWDC ffs, it's not about hardware; remember the D stands for "developer". Yes, last year was an exception, because switching the CPUs affects developers in major way and announcing new architecture without announcing new hardware would just be pointless. So stop whining about no new iMacs, tablets and what not. If you expected that from WWDC than you just set yourself up for major disappointment, and you rightfully got it. Similar argument could be made about iLife. iLife isn't much from developer's perspective, as they don't have APIs, plug-ins or anything, it's more of a Macworld thing and I doubt there will be new iLife before Leopard is shipping.

Now, as far as Leopard goes, yes, the keynote was MAJOR disappointment. Aside from new Finder and the desktop features, what happened to the 10 top secret features? 'Cause the rest of the features were already announced. Unless they are planning another big unveiling for October? Let's hope so!

Leopard seems like a solid upgrade to Tiger, though not really revolutionary - revolutionary goes to the iPhone.

It seemed to me that there were some features "missing" from Leopard. A professional presenter like Steve Jobs doesn't need to go over features he's already presented before, like the Dashboard and iChat presentations. They seemed like fillers.

No doubt if this is true it is due to development of the iPhone taking resources away from development of Mac OS X.

Speaking of the iPhone, that the iPhone doesn't have new features is not surprising. This product hasn't even been released yet!

The Safari announcement was interesting. I reckon Apple is placing some bets on web apps being the future of a lot of computing and is looking to stay in the game by having Safari run on Windows to host those apps. I wonder how much market share of Windows machines they will be able to achieve in a year's time.

I don't want it to "just live up to the rumors".. I want it to simply live up to the "anti-microsoft" bashing.

I remember when Steve, at Macworld MONTHS ago , unveiled these same features and said they'd be out before Vista. That you, the Apple User, would have these before Microsoft releases Vista. There was much to be made about the all the signs floating around ripping on Vista at that conference.

Then, up until today, I got to hear all the Apple fanboys telling me "Okay, Leopard is the 'one more thing.' The one more thing is going to be that you can buy it RIGHT NOW." I had been asking them when we can GET these features that Steve promised us "before Vista." The answer was coming today.

Oops. Nope. You can't get it today. In fact, we get to wait 4 more months. This is why the stock market has responded by Apple's shares dropping. If you go to the Yahoo finance page and look at Apple's stock, you can literally see the price drop as it becomes apparent that there are NO NEW PRODUCTS coming out of this.

The ultimate "kick in the pants", though, is Steve-o telling us that we can make AJAX applications for the Iphone. So? I could do that NOW on my Treo. That's not offering me NEW things. That's not "developing applications" for the Iphone. That REQUIRES you to be on the network. Can't get Cellphone service? Ooops. No "Third party applications for you." And that's a "FEATURE" of the Iphone?

No. This didn't live up to what Apple said it would.. nevermind the hype sites.

OMG!!!!!!!111111 NO APPLE TABLET/MONITORS+ISIGHT/12" MB!!!!!!!!!!1111 But seriously! this was a pretty good keynote I thought. Of course it can't live up to the rumours, it never will! But the Leopard features make me want to buy it NOW! The new Finder + QuickLook looks stunning, I for one will buy 10.5 as soon as I can.

No ILife.
No real updates on any other software.
No new features of any importance. (Oooh, document preview. Linux has had THAT forever.)
No new software. (With QT and KHTML and the new toolkit compiling natively on windows, Safari Windows is a weak and easy port.)

I said this on Mark Pilgrim's blog. Apple is NOT a software company anymore. They aren't a computer company anymore. They're now an embedded devices company that is having to maintain their computer line. I mean, honestly, $129 for what was announced today is just not impressive.

XP->Vista costs less than 10.1 to 10.5. Remember that.