Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 24th Jun 2003 15:32 UTC
I was present at Apple's WWDC yesterday and witnessed one of the historical moments in Apple's history, the introduction of their 64-bit platform. Am I impressed? The answer is complicated. I was happy to see Apple moving on and deliver. But I would have expected nothing less from a 4 billion tech company who had the need to catch up with the "other" platform, the 32-bit PC. You all heard by now what's new in yesterday's press releases and news coverings. But here is a wrap up of the first day of the conference and a commentary on what Apple really announced yesterday, underneath its surrounding distortion field.
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I mostly agree with Eugenia. There's nothing really innovative or ground-breaking, but good steady progress.
Xcode looks really tempting, though. Compiling in the background and "zero-linking" (however that may work) promise faster development, I'm looking forward to that.
It was a relief to see Expose, as it looks like it could actually be useful. Ever since it came thought of QuartzGL as a nice piece of technology but couldn't quite figure out what it's actually good for.
The most impressive thing about the G5 is the case design. This time, someone really had airflow in mind, where most PC makers still restrict themselves to the ATX format. The CPU - so what. A new CPU is being introduced that is faster than the previous ones? Happens all the time, it's just been a while since Apple was able to do that.
Pixlet - cool for a developer's show and a few production houses. Will not be useful for the average home user for a while, though. Maybe when we have GBit ISPs.