WWDC Keynote Summary

[wdlove]

This is a sad sad day indeed.

What I don't get is Steve in the Keynote kept says PPC and Intel, while he should have stated it as X86, since Intel is not the only company that makes and designs X86 chips.

And WHY INTEL, I would have gone with AMD, far far better choice?

Steve is smoking some good stuff indeed.

Steve has done a good Job with Apple since his return. We need to give him a chance. His instincts have been on target.

 

[~loserman~]

Just finished watching the KN and I have two words:

Yeah, right.


Apple tends to never like to admit mistakes and say things like "We were planning it ten years ago."
There is no way they made Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, and Panther for x86. I mean...do they just have money to blow? "Cross platform by design"...more like "Cross platform by the time the programmers finish it after working 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. Then we can release it next year."

If it was "Cross platform by design," there is no way that it will take them 1 year to develop Macs with...'intel inside'. Rip on the G5 processor(s) and slap in an intel processor...that cannot take an entire year.

Of course they were X86 all along.
Take a look at Darwin. You will notice that every release had a corresponding X86 release.

 

[~loserman~]

This is a sad sad day indeed.

What I don't get is Steve in the Keynote kept says PPC and Intel, while he should have stated it as X86, since Intel is not the only company that makes and designs X86 chips.

And WHY INTEL, I would have gone with AMD, far far better choice?

Steve is smoking some good stuff indeed.

I also prefer the AMD line.... but AMD would land Apple with the same problems that they had with IBM and Moto.... Supply problems.
Lets face it Intel can provide more CPUs than all the others combined.

 

[chatin]

Revenge of the Sith?

The first fallout for guests, that show up at a keynote, has come in the form of Microsoft giving away free beta software of Acrylic.

Adobe, right down the street from Apple, would be the company MS makes an example of - now that Google has gone out of their sites!!

 

[dukeblue91]

The first fallout for guests, that show up at a keynote, has come in the form of Microsoft giving away free beta software of Acrylic.

Adobe, right down the street from Apple, would be the company MS makes an example of - now that Google has gone out of their sites!!

What kind of professional would go with anything Micro$oft over Adobe anyway?

But this is so M$, they can't get their OS working right and start with other projects instead.
What a shocker

 

[iMeowbot]

The first fallout for guests, that show up at a keynote, has come in the form of Microsoft giving away free beta software of Acrylic.

Acrylic is a fascinating toy. It's Creature House Expression, just renamed and updated a little. It's really not a replacement for Illustrator, more of an additional tool/toy that someone might use.