Listening to: Wait For You - Nelly Furtado

When I was a kid there was a period where the finances were tight… Christmas that year was a Scrabble set. Being a selfish little whelp I was very disappointed - no [insert object of desire]. I woke up yesterday morning and read through the WWDC keynote notes… and I have to say it felt a little like a Scrabble christmas. Very much “oh, is that all?”

Leopard, or at least what they’ve shown off is very genuinely a .x release of MacOS X. Time Machine (*) is cool looking but it doesn’t solve a problem that I have and the other “new things” are a combination of much needed changes and “nice to haves”.

The Mac Pros are very cool… I have to say. But, again, they don’t solve a problem I have… and so that tints my perception of them.

The geeky-cool thing is that a non-broken version of Ruby on Rails will ship with Leopard… that has huge potential to make life far easier.

I think the problem lies in the fact that the WWDC is still seen as THE announcement vehicle for Apple - reality is different. Apple now spreads their announcements over the year.

(*) Time Machine would be really, really useful if you could use it to render a time based representation of your file system and emails… all interleaved… as per David Gelernter’s Lifestreams (hmmm… I wonder if you could bolt a simple version of that over the top of Spotlight already?).

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