Monday - June 11, 2007
WWDC Wrap Up
Apple's Worldwide Developer
Conference kicked off this morning with Steve Jobs' Keynote... here's is the wrap up.
As expected, Apple released some impressive
numbers, and spent the majority of the time focusing on the Mac OS X 10.5
Leopard preview. The developer beta of the new OS was released today
(to WWDC attendees only), which Apple has called a "near final build". Some of
the new features demoed by Jobs during the keynote included: a new look for the desktop, a new Finder, Quick Look, Time Machine, Spaces, a new version of Mail, a new version of iChat, BootCamp, and a few more. The new version of the OS will ship in
October of this year and cost $129 per copy. Apple also updated Safari with
a v3 public beta available for both Mac OS X and Windows. They announced that the
iPhone will support third party applications via Web 2.0 and AJAX technologies,
and released a new version of Developer Tools for Leopard. This is good news
for developers, and it was an impressive
demonstration.
However, contrary to all the rumors... Apple did not release any new Macs. There was no mention of new Macs and no updates to the existing Mac lines. This is sad news for Mac geeks. We are now half way through 2007, and still there has been no new Macs, and no industrial redesign. The big Mac news items of 2007 have been the 8 core Mac Pro updates, the MacBook updates, the MacBook Pro updates, and the AppleTV shipping (the only new product of 2007). The iPhone (the second new product of 2007) is slated to ship at the end of the month. Both the iPhone and the AppleTV were publicly demonstrated at Macworld San Francisco 2007 in January. Considering MWSF and WWDC are the two big Mac events for the year... 2007 is shaping up to be a very lame year for Mac geeks.
-AMP
However, contrary to all the rumors... Apple did not release any new Macs. There was no mention of new Macs and no updates to the existing Mac lines. This is sad news for Mac geeks. We are now half way through 2007, and still there has been no new Macs, and no industrial redesign. The big Mac news items of 2007 have been the 8 core Mac Pro updates, the MacBook updates, the MacBook Pro updates, and the AppleTV shipping (the only new product of 2007). The iPhone (the second new product of 2007) is slated to ship at the end of the month. Both the iPhone and the AppleTV were publicly demonstrated at Macworld San Francisco 2007 in January. Considering MWSF and WWDC are the two big Mac events for the year... 2007 is shaping up to be a very lame year for Mac geeks.
-AMP