WWDC 2006 wrap up
Some interesting quotes I’ve picked up so far:
- Good tools obviate bad processes.
- My hands shake, because I’m a functional alcoholic. My name is Wil Shipley, and I like rum.
Interesting time here at WWDC. Had martinis with some of the office:mac MacBU team, and heard some interesting things. The traditional AU/NZ party, which had Andrew giving us even more drink coupons than we bargained for. Then on to blogger party, which had drinks served by NewsGator (now I feel a whole lot more fuzzier paying for NetNewsWire!), and the next major event would be the Campus Bash. Food this year was sparse (i.e. I didn’t seem to get any, as they’d cleared up).
It’d seem like WWDC is an annual event of fun. And it is. The real value of which stems from the fact that you might have 4-6 coffees a day, learn a lot, and then move on to 4-6 beers a night. Throw in bagels in the morning (mmm, yum, I wish more bagel stores were around in Melbourne), a fairly healthy lunch of salads (perils of talking and going to lunch too late), and pizza for dinner and its quite heavenly.
Leopard has been previewed, and every other blog or news site has written about it. All I can say (without violating the NDA) is that there are some cool features abound when 10.5 comes out. By then, Vista would have come out. And the expectation of a “Linux desktop” would have dramatically shifted (among the home users, at least – corporations I still have hope for).
It is however interesting to see that Apple seems to be “ripping” features out of the Linux desktop. Spaces? Hello virtual workspaces. Then there are some sillies, like encouraging HTML email via “templates”.
One interesting feature seems to be the CalDAV server. (Keeping up with the Forge trend), check out Collaboration on Mac OS Forge.
The preview was a let down to many people including myself. Fingers crossed for those ‘top-secret’ features. Apple is not only ‘ripping’ features off Linux desktop but from microsoft as well. iChat screen sharing feature is similar to that of windows messenger. I would agree with you on HTML email. I guess threads view will never be fixed &imap support is not gonna be improved in Mail 3.0. There’s alot to like in Time Machine if they’ve ported ZFS over to Mac but doesn’t seem like it. Oh well.