.... no one talk about it? how did you get these quite confident information? not to say they are false, but... still
But people have spilled the beans already! This tells me that:
[1] All of the above features are features which Apple intends to include in the final release. As 4/6 are on their website already, it's hardly all insider info that we are dealing with!
[2] Due to the nature of an NDA, there will be other features which we don't yet know about.
The nature of leaks is that some things leak, but not everything.
if you can confidently make guesses, others can too.
I'm not making guesses. I've seen screen captures of the WWDC build, I've read the page on Apple's Website, I've read articles from good sources. I've followed the updates on
MacRumours.
As mentioned before — 4/6 of my “guessed” features are listed on Apple's website! Guess work? Not so much.
I think you make these statements like a real insider of all those companies, which is, IMHO, impossible.
No, all these marketing features are found on currently shipping products (Vista, OS X Leoapard and Firefox). No inside information needed!
At least AFAIK, the marketing tricks of firefox 3 is speed, memory management, security, ease of use, awesomebar, full page zoom, password manager, cairo, etc
for Vista, I might not be an insider, but I know they have been addressing security, start penal search, etc as well.
Congratulations, you just completely missed the point.
The point I was making had very little to do with those products in particular, they were just well known examples I picked.
Obviously all three have many good features aside from the glitzy marketing features. You have named many of them for Firefox and Vista.
The point was to demonstrate that often tech companies feel that they need marketing features to get customers excited and engaged in their products. Often when you peal back the layers these features you discover they are not that exciting after all (although some are).
There is nothing controversial in any of the above and very little to debate. Either I did not made myself clear in the original post or you have = mis-read or misinterpreted my post.
agreed. however, its unfortunately apple's own fault, rabid imaginations were hyped by apple's marketing team in all previous versions of OSX.
Exactly, but Apple can't go back and change the past, they can only change in the future.
oh my god, you must be living in another space, hype around vista? count again see how many reviews are positive about it when it come out?
Hype from Microsoft. 500M US Dollars of hype. And they are going to spend even more later in the year according to Steve Ballmer.
The wow starts now. All that wow!
Hype years before about
Longhorn, WinFS etc. etc.
There was plenty of hype. This time round the general tech media choose not to buy in to much of it this time round. In other words — the hype backfired.
As almost every self respecting tech blogger has noticed this, then it will have almost certainly been noted both by Redmond and Cupertino.
Finally, My main point is not saying addressing stability and performance is a bad thing at all. Im just saying it makes previous hype around every previous OSX release so ridiculous. Its like people have no thinking skills and take whatever talking points apple throw at them.... new feature... yeahhh,,, no new feature... yeah..... ????? .... yeah...... Its just amazing.
Considering Apple's track proven track record of delivering improvements across the board for the last 7 years to OS X (which was an immature product when it shipped) I think high expectations are not completely without foundation.
I could think of a few other products from other companies (which have a far less solid track record of delivery than Apple) over the last few years that also have had a fair bit of hype. That debate is for another day.
Apple's approach is to temper that optimism. The message would probably be — yes we can deliver something good or even great, but no we can't deliver the impossible, so adjust your expectations accordingly.
