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August 07, 2006
"Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade." — Steve Jobs, 10 and a half years ago
Apple had its Worldwide Developers Conference today, and unveiled the first Mac Pro, which finally lets the Cheese Grater design's volume be put to good use instead of clever fan systems. They also showed off the next version of OS X, Leopard. I haven't gotten around to watching the video yet, but the coolest-sounding features to me are the system-level virtual desktops (poor Virtue!) and Alex, the long-awaited successor to MacInTalk's Fred. Well, turning any part of any web page into a Dashboard widget sounds pretty cool too. And the new backup system, Time Machine, sounds like it'd be useful for people with far less data than I have.
MacRumors.com reports that Jobs suggested they were hiding some features so as to delay competition (==Microsoft).
10:29 am top secret features not being shown, just not letting you know what they are.
In perhaps related news, today Microsoft killed VirtualPC. For the past year or more they've been promising an Intel version of the Windows emulator. Poor Connectix. Once upon a time, pretty much every Mac had at least one piece of Connectix software on it. Then came OS X (to over-simplify by far), and then they were phaged by Microsoft...As Wikipedia describes Connectix:
Connectix Corporation was a software and hardware company, noted for having released innovative products that were either made obsolete as Apple incorporated the ideas into system software, or were sold to other companies once they become popular.
I had planned a bunch of other links for today, but I think some those will suffice.
Posted by Jon Rubin at August 7, 2006 11:49 PM
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