Nothing special on today’s WWDC Keynote. New Finder and Desktop with Stacks in Leopard are nice, but nothing groundbreaking was revealed. What about ZFS and resolution independence, for instance? And iLife? I guess the latter will be released in October, simultaneously with Leopard. Maybe the biggest news of today was the updated apple.com. The site, including Apple Store, is wider and black, clearly sporting the same design as Leopard. The site embodies AJAX with nice features for selecting software and checking out galleries, while for example the download area has gone through an extensive information restructuring.
New, wider apple.com
Back to the Keynote. Jobs announced that Safari has been ported to Windows. The Safari 3 Public Beta is available for download for both Mac and Windows.
Organizing objects into Stacks can help with crowded Dock, but for me the overall look may be too candy with the reflections.
Finder is like iTunes sharing the same user interface including Cover Flow.
During the last 20 minutes of the Keynote Jobs announced that the forthcoming iPhone will run applications created with Web 2.0 Internet standards. Jobs stated that the innovative approach lets developers create amazing new applications while keeping the iPhone secure and reliable. This is nice as Apple can keep their code secret while providing a ready platform for developers to build their apps and test with Safari. Naturally writing native apps with a decent SDK would be better than this AJAX base solution. My concerns as a consumer are the phone performance with heavy apps and the offline accessibility of these widgets. But we will see as first iPhone (begins shipping on June 29) reviews are in shortly. Oh, and have you heard about brushed aluminum iMacs…
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