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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Are you kidding me, the advancements in Panther alone were incredibly innovative and ground breaking.
Sorry, my jaw did not drop on a single of Panther's feaure. I have seen all of them in one or the other form before, and a lot of the features are ones that users begged for since 10.0 (e.g. labels, fast searches, fax support, proper file dialogs). Other features like fast user switching, file system level encryption or video conferencting are standard in Windows XP. The most interesting thing is Expose, but as Eugenia wrote, that is almost trivially after QuartzGL which was introduced in 10.2. In this case, the credit goes to 10.2.
The most impressive thing about Apple's product presentations is Steve Jobs' ability to catch the audience's' attention.