CocoaDust

I attended WWDC last week, it was good, and while I can’t talk about most things, I would like to talk about what Apple has made public.

So excuse me if this isn’t an original thought, but after what people are calling Steve Jobs’s worst keynote ever I did some thinking and had a lot of discussions with people about what that really means for Leopard in general.

The thing about Leopard is that is shows how mature the OS is now when the biggest thing they can trumpet is backup software (Time Machine), which looks to be a fantastic implementation in demo form, and there’s Spaces, the stacks in the Dock are pretty handy and the consolidated UI is really, truly welcome. And there’s more to it than just that, of course.

So Leopard actually sorts out a lot of things that have been annoying people, but what many people won’t be aware is just how much stuff it adds for developers - more than any release of Mac OS X that I can think of and I’ve seen them all. Also, they really seem to be taking the HIG bull by the horns and reining in the craziness. The Apple Design Awards showed that pretty well too.

I heard someone say (and can’t remember who - sorry) “Apple seems to be counting on developers to sell Leopard”. No bad thing!

That keynote sucked though. Oy.