Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 7th Aug 2006 18:30 UTC
At the 2006 WWDC in San Fransisco, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced several new products during his opening keynote speech. Read more for a chronological summary of the keynote-- including the much-debated preview of Mac OS 10.5, Leopard, which, according to Steve Jobs, will ship this spring. Update: Apparantly, a similar feature to Time Machine already exists in Linux. It is called 'Dervish'.
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Many ppl aren't realizing that most of these "new" features (which, like 'spaces' aren't new at all in the Window Manager arena, just to mention one example) are not really intended to be new features; Apple always provides 'new' stuff for its user base, in the best way they consider.
For example, Time machine, could be something like Retrospect Backup (we Mac users know Retrospect), however Apple gave the same idea, a "spectacular and easy to use" interfase where MOST of the options are hidden from the users' perspective.
That is the key behind Apple. Some things they create are really "new", others are not super new, yet are better integrated, and some other are simply "reinventions of the wheel" but in the Apple way.
Tha Apple way might or might not be the way you want it to be, but you can't almost never deny that for the Average Mac user and the NEW mac users, using these technologies will not be a PITA (Pain in the A..)
I have been a Windows user for a long time. I converted to Mac two years ago. I never looked back. There are things you may dislike about Apple, its OS, etc., however, most of the things that happen when you are WORKING on a Mac with Mac OS X are pleasant. Small details, things that you "thank" for being there and so easy to use; and I have the skills to use a Linux Box if I wanted, and I've even gave it a try (unfair try to be honest, it lacks Good Commercial Applications that I need) (Gimp/Inkskape doesn't compare to the real commercial alternatives, period), but I always went back to Windows for Gaming, and Mac for working.
Now your mileage may vary, you may advocate FOSS or whatever, yet you can't deny that Apple integrate things with certain "style" that is missing in the alternatives (whether FOSS or not). It's just that.
As a side note, when you really use Mac OS X, you start finding some quirks and some things that you wish you could change, it's the price tag you have to pay for having a well integrated operating system.
Leopard is, in essence, a natural upgrade to a rock solid OS with loads of new technology (when it came out), but "new" as I've said above, not new but well integrated. Leopard will "fix" what Spotlight didn't do right, will add stuff, will bring a new Finder, etc...
This was just a preview, let's just wait