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WWDC Keynote Over
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smllpx said:
Whoa; that's nuts what konfabulator put up on their homepage.
"Cupertino, start your photocopiers." Apple is such an innovator that it is surprising that they borrowed, well, jacked konfabulator's ideas and look.
Apple's dashboard of course seems like it will smoke Konfab, but still, for Apple to steal concepts like that is disheartening. The platform race is all about creation; that's why we love the Mac in the first place.
At least that's why this writer does. With it's curves, sleekness, shinyness, luminosity, spectrum of color, and beauty, Mac puts me in a state of mind to create, not imitate.
Peace!
dswoodley said:
me too. Dashboard looked a lot better when Steve showed it, and I think with nearly a year to work on it, it will even be better when they release it.
kgarner said:
Me too. Oh, oops, but I don't have a graphics card good enough. But anyways. The display is really nice, and dumping ADC was wise. Cable arrangement is still ok. No 17" sucks.
Bit of a disappointment, this WWDC. Only one hardware release?(I coun't the displays and Nvidia 6800 as one.) Tiger doesn't look too good, especially with killing Konfabulator with the Dashboard. BTW, Dashboard looks like it has a bit of Windoze look in it. But new iChat is ok. The wait until first half of 2005 sucks.
What I'm hoping from 2004 now is a new iMac, hopefully upgrade to a even faster processor in the PowerMac and liquid cooling across the line (December?). New PB's, and iPods should be coming within 9 months.
But one can't have everything, right?
noel4r said:
That's right. Apple didn't want to show too many people how they haven't done much work. Lowsy...
But, now they're showing it as a video-by-demand:
Apple.com - Quicktime - What's on - Apple Events
Hmm. At least they're advertising it. The link to the video does not work. Gotta check later.
EDIT: Oh yeah, and much thanks to Arn and co. for keeping macrumors.com up and feeding us with info from the keynote.
Give me a break...
I love how every 7-10 posts someone tries to be the voice of reason, saying, "It's a DEVELOPER'S confrence." Face it. You were disappointed that there wasn't more hardware.
Whoever mentioned that the new displays were not developer-oriented had a good point. If anything, unless Apple was going to release more hardware, the displays seem very out of place. Apple needed either more hardware, or no hardware.
-Clive
I love how every 7-10 posts someone tries to be the voice of reason, saying, "It's a DEVELOPER'S confrence." Face it. You were disappointed that there wasn't more hardware.
Whoever mentioned that the new displays were not developer-oriented had a good point. If anything, unless Apple was going to release more hardware, the displays seem very out of place. Apple needed either more hardware, or no hardware.
-Clive
Clive At Five said:
yep to be honest you have a great point.... and it should have been more...core image and tiger are nice though
Clive At Five said:
I wasn't...
everything other than the iMac and iPod have had recent updates. And I just don't believe people were still clinging on to the belief that we'd see a 3GHz G5 announcement or even PowerBook updates during the Keynote. I didn't think Apple would choose such a 'closed' event to launch a new iMac if it was either an all singing all dancing G5 or sported a new enclosure design, they'll want some serious media attention for this, either in the form of a Keynote presentation at a consumer expo or by scheduling a one off media event for it.
You can't please everyone I guess.
ooing and ahhig
Its a well known fact that Steve gets the 'Married with Children' audience in for every speech he does. Hence the over the top reactions
MacFan26 said:That's a great clip, it was great to hear people "ooing" and "ahhing" when he showed iChat. Much different from the iTunes Europe announcement
Its a well known fact that Steve gets the 'Married with Children' audience in for every speech he does. Hence the over the top reactions
seelab said:
well he's not going to say it's going to be a crap one is he
we've still got half a year to go, but so far we've seen the iPod mini, G5 Xserves, iTMS for UK, France, Germany, with rest to come in a few months, 500MHz increase on top G5 with funky new cooling tech, new displays, portables updated, eMac updates, Airport Express, and new software announcements.
I certainly don't think it's been a 'bad' year so far.
unfortunately people get suckered by the Rumour site hype, even when it's completely without foundation and then when said rumourware doesn't get announced everytime Jobs steps on stage, the Mac sites fill with winjers. Apple cannot be expected to live up to such insane levels of rumour hype. period.
You can't please everyone I guess.
I think core image is one of the most exiting things that I have seen in a long time, real time effects applied to video and stills could completely change the speed of which I can work. The amount of time spent waiting for contrast filters to take effect is ridiculous at present.
Personaly I was more than happy with this keynote, and the 30inch display definately belonged at a developers conference.... few home users will be able to afford one. Now if I can just convince my boss that I need it....
Personaly I was more than happy with this keynote, and the 30inch display definately belonged at a developers conference.... few home users will be able to afford one. Now if I can just convince my boss that I need it....
BOOM people boom, have you all seen the www.konfabulator.com website it says "Cupertino start your engines" "why wait untill 2005 when you can have it now" very quick people!!
