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Then there are some of us who saw internet/multimedia keyboards a waste of time and could never understand why the plebs out there like the rubbish anyway - then again, these are the same people who think that its sexy that their computer speakers hang off their side of their monitor like giant ears.

Anyway, its going to be interesting to see how it is integrated into applications - the simple fact of the matter is, Spotlight/Coredata and WinFS go alot further than Life queries ever did; its a complete API that allows extensive database capabilities to application developers - rather than them going out and trying to create some weird ass format that no one has ever heard of, it'll simply be a matter of using the Coredata/Spotlight or WinFS API and create that a storage mechanism that is not only fast but accessible not only to their own application (obviously!) but to third party's as well - the ability to search emails from your word processor for one thing; having one centralised address book that is accessible to all applications rather than having a a seperate address book for each application.

These are moves that are similar but at the same time different to what has been on offer in the past - the provide the same sort of feature set, but they extend their use alot further than simply have a dinky dialogue box and the ability to search the disk on the fly.