WWDC Keynote
So today was Apple dev day and while I still haven’t seen the keynote I did watch the IRC chatter and listen to it over ustream.tv audo-only stream.
While most of it seemed to be warmed-over stuff from last year, tho once I see the keynote maybe I’ll upgrade that opinion, what I found was interesting was two things that were not mentioned and two that were.
First of all why they still have not talked about iLife – zero zip nada – if I were part of the iLife team I would start looking over my shoulder for the same squad that took out poor Brushed Metal.
Second, not a mention of ZFS. All kinds of talk about TimeMachine, a feature that couldn’t possibly be thought of without ZFS behind the scenes. You would think that such a huge refactoring of the back-end filesystem would get a mention.
Nope
One of the things that was mentioned, and is a bombshell IMO, is the .Mac make-over. Wow – they are going to make DAV servers very jealous and also make every IT manager cry with this update. Any mac that is synced to a .Mac account now gets not only it’s IP address published but also other searchable information. Very scary in a break-into-one-mac-get-them-all kinda way.
The thing that was talked about Safari 3 and how it’s going to be available for Windows. My first reaction was WTF — I mean like we need another browser for windows. Then I started thinking about all of the HTML/CSS/javascript bugs on the Mac version of Safari … yikes.
The only hope is that this will force them to fix some of these issues as now they expect all of the ravenous iPhone devs to use this. I wonder if they think this will stop devs from asking for a more core SDK.
Please pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
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