Comments on: Steve Jobs 2007 WWDC Keynote Underwhelms

By: Hari Jayaram

Hari Jayaram — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:53:19 +0000

The slides for the KeyNote talk are on slideshare courtesy Guy Kawasaki
at http://www.slideshare.net/GKawasaki/wwdc2007/1

I am also very disappointed at how ignored Java 6 is on the Mac platform. This whole iphone thing better pay off!

By: Asam Bashir

Asam Bashir — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:02:22 +0000

You must be blind then if you can’t differentiate Leopard desktop to Vista. You also forget the dynamic nature of the Mac OS X desktop, you forget Expose, Dashboard, Application switching, and now, Spaces, Quicklook, Stacks, the new Finder, Spotlight. The beauty of Mac OS X is the little details, the kind of details you only get to see from daily use, the way the icons change to represent activity, the little indicators on the Finder bar.

By: simon

simon — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:23:58 +0000

Asam, I’ve watched the keynote now as well. After watching it, I still think Leopard looks just “OK”. That’s not saying it’s “bad” by the way, it’s just saying it’s “OK”.

I had been hoping for more of a revolution in terms of the desktop look and feel, to really differentiate it from Vista. That hasn’t happened. Maybe it doesn’t matter - I’m not sure.

By: Asam Bashir

Asam Bashir — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:21:55 +0000

New Finder seems even better then it sounded, watching the keynote now. The dot mac tie in with remote access looks great. We’ve been able to do this with Remote Access but with it built-in to the Finder seems a great idea. Would be even better to tie in some Google apps with dot mac and this does seem to be a good stratergy for improving Apples cloud computing. Being able to turn pages of a PDF document looks great as well, those are exactly the kind of little things that increase productivity so I think Quicklook is as big a step forward as Spotlight searching.

By: Asam Bashir

Asam Bashir — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:40:43 +0000

Snafu, you’re complaining about the desktop picture and you expect to be taken seriously? The desktop pic is normally the first thing I change after a new installation - there is no such thing as a single desktop picture that would please anyone, you’re supposed to customise it the way you want. I personally have geektool displaying systems logs and console with transparency as by background.

Finder and Aqua Horrible latencies? Are you sure you haven’t messed up your particular systems? Do you actually understand how a UNIX system works? and how different processes are given different priorities? The fact that machines as old as a Pismo G3 Powerbook right up to current rev 3 MacBook Pros can run the same OS is a credit to Mac OS X. Are you by any chance comparing laptop performance with a 4200 RPM drive with a faster desktop drive? Have you tried putting a faster drive in your laptop?

Personally I love the fact that the dock has gone transparent, I’ve been using a transparent dock since about 10.0 using Unsanity’s Clear dock. If I could have made my Finder bar transparent I probably would have.

Regarding comments on Vista, ha-ha you have to be kiding, it’s a well known fact that Vista development was put on hold and reset after Leopard development was announced. So who’s copied who?

Being someone who’s been using Macs forever (what exactly is forever?) you should know very well that there is a huge third-party Mac app development community who do a great job in providing zillions of apps that allow you to customise the Mac to work in the best way for you. Personally, I think browsing by files is so 20th Century, the only time I use Finder is when I’m backing up and need to tidy some things. For most files activity I use QuickSilver with text and gesture shortcuts…..

By: Michael Tsai - Blog - WWDC 2007 Keynote

Michael Tsai - Blog - WWDC 2007 Keynote — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 02:35:34 +0000

[...] it was a disappointing keynote. I didn’t expect the top secret features to materialize, but it’s still a let-down after Job’s hype last year and all [...]

By: Neil Anderson

Neil Anderson — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:37:25 +0000

Looks awesome to me. Can’t wait to buy the Ultimate version.

By: Snafu

Snafu — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:48:28 +0000

Well, I am a daily user of Macs since forever, both at home and at my job, and I am beyond underwhelmed, plus I never saw Apple so determined to candy-coat OS X up to Windows (Vista)-levels before (that desktop background, that menubar transparency, that dynamic icon preview, etc.). What was that about, actually?

Until I see that they have solved all the Finder’s and Aqua’s horrible, HORRIBLE latencies (my Mac Pro doesn’t feel any faster than my Pmac G4, GUI-wise, for the love of God!) and their death by a thousand cuts approach to workflow is corrected somehow, colour me rabid.

By: Asam Bashir

Asam Bashir — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:47:42 +0000

64-bit from ground up, biggest games developers returning to Mac, the iPhone with developer access, the only solution in the world where you can boot any OS under virtualization - when where we discussing these as a means for Apple to increase market share? and now that we have these real working features, with Mac sales at record levels and the only company increasing it’s market share, and you’re still complaining, and you’re not even a Mac user. Mindset, all this shows is that Apple has the mindset where other companies don’t….

By: Asam Bashir

Asam Bashir — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:39:35 +0000

Apple fans always have very high expectations, but they’ll recover at the end of June when iPhone ships, and October, when they get there hands on Leopard. New iMacs where expected, featuring LED screens, but obviously Apple can’t get hold of them in the numbers it needs right now, in 20″ and 24″ versions. Even the MacBook Pro rev 3, only the 15″ has the screen yet…

We where hoping to hear more announcements regarding iPhone release in Europe, but WWDC wasn’t the time and place. We might be underwhelmed with the keynote but that doesn’t mean we’re underwhelmed with Apple, we’re just an impatient lot. But we also have to remember, as Mac users there are now more in our ranks then ever before, they’re not the same kind of hardcore Apple users, they’re the new breed of iPod and Windows switchers, so way Apple presents and demos it’s technology will change over time.