WWDC 2007 : Excitement & Hype continues

[gxsaurav]

PUN INTENDED

Well, look for yourself. Apple never leaves a chance to downplay there lifeline. Despite of what Jobs said in D : All things digital

Live text can be found on Macrumorslive.

Video of Jobsnote will be available by tomorrow (indian time) on Apple.com. Do keep in mind that Apple.com will be hammered for 2 days easily due to many users trying to watch it.

Oh well, it is over. So much for the secret feature that El Jobso announced last year.

1) Games on Mac, good for Mac users. Now even macboys will know why we like upgrading out computers . God of gaming industry John Carmack was there. But hey, that did not presented anything new. Mac already had OpenGL games for Mac. This just means developers will port there games to Mac, just not all like they used to. Those which are Pure DX 9/10 will need quite some time to be ported. Anyway, porting games isn't that hard in 2007, at least an OpenGL port will be there.

Arya, finally your X1600 will be used for something it was meant for

2) New desktop, hmm....took an idea from Stardock & Vista it seems . Stacks looks like another rip of a Mac app which shows content of a folder in a HUD. But anyone, at least they are using WPF....i mean Core Animation . The implementation of HUD in Mac is a welcome feature. This is how a new feature called stack looks like

3) New unified look all over just like iTunes. Anyone using Mac OS X here can get that using UNO 1.51 for Mac right now

4) Still not enough finder enhancement, just a visual treat for those UI licker. Coverflow right in finder to show all your files, images, videos like iTunes Coverflow. Well, like I said before, Mac: All looks. Thats all. i wonder how coverflow makes managing files easier.

This is how the new finder looks like. Don't get it confused with iTunes

5) Finder still has no cut option

6) Another new Finder integrated function is Quick Look lets you open up previews of most common document types without opening the respective app, and unsupported doc types can be added through extensions. Hmm...did someone copied a feature Windows Vista's Windows Preview :-" or Linux Live Thumbnails in UBUNTU . Oh well....Sidebar finally has option to dock sections. "Search for" is again something copied from Vista's Live Folders.

Apple Mac OS X leopard Desktop webpage

7) Apple.com's look is changed after 6 years. Now it looks Aero-ish, i mean black.

8 ) Leopard page updated

9) Jobs : First mainstream OS to go fully 64-bit. 1 version of Leopard for 64-bit and 32-bit apps. Good, you are just 3 years behind Windows XP X64 & 8 months behind Windows Vista X64

10) Time waster, I mean Time machine. Finally Mac users can backup automatically. Well, Windows users have been enjoying this already since Windows server 2003 or if we take system restore into account, even before that.

11) Another new feature to Mac, Windows Presentation foundation....I mean Core Animation. Damn, it looks so similar that I got confused

12) Integrated Boot camp to support Lifeline...I mean Windows XP/Vista. Still no support to run Windows Application natively like using WINE or Crossover. Apple, how hard it is to support the Mono Project?
13) Yahoo Wid....I mean Dashboard :Ywan:, same old boring thing. A new feature though is that you can make your own widgets using Webclip.

14) Virtual Desktop...I mean Spaces. one thing innovative, we can drag & drop applications from one Space to another

15) Outlook 2007...I mean Windows Live Mail desktop...woops I mean Apple Mail.app. Featuring Notes, todo & other technologies which we "other OS" users are using since 2005

16) iChat....grr....can't they just use Adium by default. Come on Apple, Pidgin source code is free to use. Still no support for anything other then .mac or AIM

17) Safari 3.0, which is also coming to Windows. Wow, Apple already proved that they suck when it comes to making applications for Windows & just what we needed, another resource hog Web browser (After firefox, Apple ever heard of WPF & .net 3.0, use that plz)

[iMav]

^^ got ur point

looks like the whole apple thing like windows is getting a standard look ... it was vista ish for everything from windows ... now its itunes ish for everything apple .. only difference with the vista ish style winodws brought something new and innovative as far as look and feel was concerned ... isne toh itunes ki theme bana dhi

[gxsaurav]

More things to add

1) iPhone will support web based applications like GMail chat etc. Developers will need to purchase and deploy a web server just to develop an app. You won't see any third party media players, chat programs, web browsers, productivity apps, complex games, document handlers. I wonder what happens when you're traveling in train or in Ramgarh . This does proves that iPhone is a closed source device, as AJAX based web apps are not apps, they are script & applets. If you don't have internet....boom, nothing will work. So far, Windows Mobile is still looking more powerful and flexible.
2) I loved this statement of Jobs

"We're just walking time bombs in terms of having something go wrong."

How, I thought Mac never crash, means no data loss ever. They love to rip on microsoft but so far i've seen more new features in Vista than I have in Leopard. And all apple can do is negative ad campaigns.

3) Here is the Safari Plugin page for Windows version just look what WMP Plugin they are using for Windows . Firefox's plugin for WMP...lolz..so much for being innovative

4) What happened to the Macboy who used to say "microsoft copies from Apple" . Here are the features that Apple copied from Microsoft in Leopard

1) Transparent menubar & Toolbars....a.k.a Aero of Windows Vista in terms of Illuminous

2) Windows Backup +Shadow copy + Previous version in terms of Time Machine

3) Virtual Desktop of Windows/linux in terms of spaces.

4) Windows Preview in terms of Quicklook. Hey Apple, quicklook itself is an application.

5) Stacks in Finder copied from Live Folders of Windows Vista

6) 64bit OS, Oh well...not a copy. I won't say supporting 64bit CPU's a copy.

7) WPF in terms of Core Animation. Anyone wishing to challenge me on this is welcome here.

8) Tabbed chat in iChat. Not copied from Vista but from Adium/Pidgin instead.

iMav, you will be happy. Now finally no more clutter due to HDs on desktop of Mac

[goobimama]

What utter rubbish...

[iMav]

Originally Posted by gx_saurav

iMav, you will be happy. Now finally no more clutter due to HDs on desktop of Mac

with reference to arya ... now desktop is desktop and my computer is for hdds ... windows inspired

[gxsaurav]

Originally Posted by goobimama

What utter rubbish...

Lolz....goobi we understand your feelings. Just read the statements in bold. To be very frank I can't stop my laughter for those who used to call windows a copy cat.

Fellow members, I urge everyone here to read the article, available on Engadget etc to conclude yourself. Name me one feature in Leopard has better then Vista. Yeah, I can't either.

Speaking of that , where is our Mac Genius?

Sorry Mods for bashing Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, I just couldn't stop myself laughing the copycats copying features from Vista instead. Didn't apple understand something that Transparency in UI sux, Cell shaded is the way to go.

This so far was the most useless WWDC ever.

[aku]

OMG...
kip it up gx... loll

[gxsaurav]

@ akuCracker

Lolz....nah it is time for Apple to keep up & start there photocopiers.

Anyway, since Leopard hardly provides anything over Tiger's Finder the "Windows Explorer vs Finder" is not much far. This is going to be a big one