Comments on: WWDC 2007 Keynote

By: Journler - Blog - Blog Archive - » Apple to Developers: Write Web Apps. -- Is It Really That Bad?

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 07:11:57 +0000

[…] It’s not an area I am well versed in, so I missed it the first time around when I said in my keynote post: “Instead of announcing an SDK Jobs announced that developers would be able to write AJAX Web […]

By: Steven Jay Cohen

Steven Jay Cohen — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 15:37:29 +0000

Cocoa for Windows existed before OSX did

Showing my age here, but OpenStep was crossplatfom back in the day. I think Steve will eventually fullfill the Yellow Box promise: Develop on a mac, deploy everywhere. Apple does not need the corporate customers, but if developers see that they can build stuff on a Mac and deploy on OSX, Windows, and *Nix (using GNUstep+), then personal computer choice of developers can tilt the scales. This is true at my office. We develop on Windows and most of the office has macs at home.

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 05:00:03 +0000

But these events are supposed to be the launchpad for Apple’s latest and greatest, not the rehashing of the previewed 5 months ago and the not that exciting to begin with.

I guess that’s it. The Leopard beta has been around a year so there isn’t much new to say. Unfortunately today’s developer preview was hyped in a big way — those super secret features which turned out to be cool but not incredible. Everyone had high expectations.

I was really hoping for a product announcement. I’m in the market for a new Mac and I’d love to get an iMac. It’s been 280 days since the line was updated, and I thought the conference would be a good chance to announce it. After all, like you said the MacBooks were updated just a week ago or so. But I suppose that would take away some of the spotlight from the iPhone.

Thankfully one of the sessions later in the day was excellent. I can’t say too much about it — NDA and all that — but the presenters made an excellent case for web based technologies and web based media. It really does look like Apple is repositioning itself.

We all thought Apple was branching and headed in a more consumer devices oriented direction, iPhone, iPod, iTV, all that jazz. What I’m seeing instead is a company looking to make itself a major player in the new internet culture, not only as a distributor and consumer platform but also as a producer of web content. By that last one I don’t mean Apple creating web content but rather providing the platform which individuals use to create it. I think Apple envisions a future in which the premier web content is created, distributed and consumed through its products and systems.

By: Michael Tsai - Blog - WWDC 2007 Keynote

Michael Tsai - Blog - WWDC 2007 Keynote — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 02:35:15 +0000

[…] believes what Jobs says. And, more importantly, it’s insulting to portray some browser hooks as an SDK for writing true iPhone applications. The iPhone Web applications aren’t even at the level of […]

By: EvanAgee

EvanAgee — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 02:05:11 +0000

You’d think I’d be happy to find out that I’m not the only one scratching my head after today’s keynote. When Steve jumped right into the Leopard tour I thought for sure that we were in for an exciting ride that would take much time. Desktop improvements, great. New finder, great. Time Machine, iChat fancy backgrounds, Spaces…. umm, didn’t we already see this? Okay, the master salesman is saving the best for last, the major secret features are coming up last. Nope, more of the same.

At the end I ended up feeling about as excited as I feel when I hear about a new project that Microsoft is working on. Yeah, it was that bad. Sure, we got some MacBook Pro updates a week or so ago and the MacBook was improved some as well. But these events are supposed to be the launchpad for Apple’s latest and greatest, not the rehashing of the previewed 5 months ago and the not that exciting to begin with.

Come on Apple, we’ve come to expect much from you and today you’ve let me down.