Linked by Jean-Baptiste Quéru on Tue 29th Jun 2004 17:40 UTC
Let me make it clear. I'm not a fan of Apple. I think that their products are overhyped, overpriced and underperforming. If you're looking for a fair unbiased opinion, you're looking in the wrong place. You've been warned. So, I was at Steve Jobs' 2004 WWDC keynote yesterday, attempting to take pictures for OSNews (an amazingly hard task, by the way, which really explained why people pay big bucks for big lenses equipped with image stabilizers). UPDATE: Stop reading right there, I have rewritten & updated the article here.
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JBQ, there will always be something to complain about. Don't take this personally, but a lot of fotographers have your kind of personality. They over-react to the most minimal interference with their work..I guess it is your nature that makes you that way..
In any case, MacOS X is light years ahead of MacOS 9. Sure, it does not have everything Windows does (as Windows does not have everything either) but it has been closing the gap rapidly over the last 4 years.
In addition, you must remember, Steve needs to sell computers, and some of the things you talk about are simply harder to do that what it sounds. In addition, you do not know everything that is happening down at Apple, and just a look at the enhancements they are promising for Tiger that are under-the-hood, should help you understand that most of the effort in the last 2 years has been to upgrade/replace most of the components of NeXT to the latest versions of other UNIXes (or similar, whatever) like FreeBSD 5.
Not everyone needs to agree with what you want. For instance, I do not like integration of Safari and PDF. Its not useful, it does not serve any purpose and will only create unstability in the system (which is what happens in Windows, acrobat hangs 2 out of 5 times you open a PDF).