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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This is the thing that makes me chuckle the most when it comes to Mac users...when something new comes to a MAC they think it's amazing and innovative and they say...HA HA...we're the best we've got feature X now...
The problem is that Apple really has never come up with anything that is an incredibly dramatic departure from that which came before it...
Exhibit A... the Apple I and II computers...there were several computers of arguably superior capabilities available at their price point
Exhibit B... the MacOS interface...stolen from Xerox PARC...that's right, outright STOLEN
Exhibit C... MacOS X...BOUGHT from NeXT, yes NeXT was truly innovative, but 90% of MacOS X's innovation comes from NeXT technology
Exhibit D... the iPod...i have nothing else to say about that, MP3 players have been around since Napster!!!
There are only two reasons why Apple even APPEARS innovative, the amazing Steve Jobs reality distortion field and the fact that Apple's implementations are usually among the best of their kind, sometimes by a very wide margin. The second of these reasons is an excellent testament to Apple design and a reason to buy Apple products, however to call anything to come out of Apple particularly innovative is quite a stretch I would say.