WWDC 07 - the rundown
The Stevenote came and went; overblown expectations replaced by the collective uhm? and 'where is this and where is that?' concerns from Apple fans users/advocates. 300 new features are included in Leopard, yet Steve chose 10 of those to demo during his keynote. Initially we were hoping for 10 brand new(=not demoed before or mentioned or whatever) features, the kind of features that would be deemed super secret and super valuables, the kind of features Apple wouldn't demo so that Microsoft wouldn't (once again) 'adopt' them for their Vista Windows revision.
We were mostly wrong. 3 new features were revealed. Not really that amazing, mind blowing or otherwise worth celebrating for, yet worthy and interesting as a whole. The new desktop, which seems to be heavy on Core animation and whatnot and also comes with 'Stacks', a nifty feature which I am really going to put to some good use once I get access to it. There is also ( at last ) a new, really slick finder which is a whole lot like iTunes, only for files. The third new feature demoed is called Quicklook, which is about being able to live-preview files ( based on their file-type ) without having to launch an application. Very handy. The other 7 selected features were basically overviews of previously demoed/confirmed features (Phaistos Network ) can't wait to get their hands on this baby and build apps for it. A release date was provided ( June 29th ) and that was basic it.
The one more thing turned out to be ( thank God ) Safari 3.0. It is now available for both Mac and PCs ( Windows ). Its way faster, it sports draggable tabs, super slick in-line find and a very cool textareas resizing system ( so that you can resize it if you feel like doing so while writing some text, just like I did when I started posting this ). It doesn't work at all on my brother's Windows box. Then again, its beta, take it with a grain of salt etc. I love Safari.
I really hoped they talk about iWork, iLife and the new iMacs. That was by far my biggest let-down. I hope they 'll make up for it by releasing them within the following days though.
Monday, 11 June 2007 11:50 pm
