Patrick Shannon
06-11-2007, 08:21 PM
Online Apple nerds a few months ago (following Leopard delay): "I think I may have purchased my last Macintosh."
Same nerds after keynote today: "God, October can't come soon enough!"
I'm sitting here waiting for a Final Cut Studio installation to finish on my laptop (nearly an hour install and 30GBs, egads) so I was following along. Pretty underwhelming stuff, though...considering we saw most of it at the WWDC last year. The new Finder and Desktop is fairly nice and needed, but other than that, I don't see where the "top secret" stuff that Steve Jobs said he couldn't show last year was. He probably should have kept his mouth shut on that, just like when he said in 2003 that the G5 processor would hit 3Ghz within a year. ;) And the whole AJAX/Web 2.0 developing platform for iPhone....I'm not so sure that's exactly what developers had in mind.
But Safari for Windows is an interesting one. I guess it kind of makes sense, one advantage is that it allows web developers on Windows to test for the other side easily (could more banks and web apps now be inspired to make them work with Safari?). Second, with more exposure, it helps point out some of its flaws more easier and lights a fire under Apple's butt to fix them. Third, the whole iPhone development thing.
I certainly don't see it unseating Firefox (or even IE), but it'll compliment it well. Especially if it renders as fast as they claim and is lightweight on the system resources. I could see Safari hurting Opera, though.
I just tried Safari 3 beta on Mac and while it doesn't appear to be greatly different on the surface, it does seem to render pages faster. Not to mention they FINALLY got around to fixing a nasty bug with Flash animation whenever menus hover down over them.
Same nerds after keynote today: "God, October can't come soon enough!"
I'm sitting here waiting for a Final Cut Studio installation to finish on my laptop (nearly an hour install and 30GBs, egads) so I was following along. Pretty underwhelming stuff, though...considering we saw most of it at the WWDC last year. The new Finder and Desktop is fairly nice and needed, but other than that, I don't see where the "top secret" stuff that Steve Jobs said he couldn't show last year was. He probably should have kept his mouth shut on that, just like when he said in 2003 that the G5 processor would hit 3Ghz within a year. ;) And the whole AJAX/Web 2.0 developing platform for iPhone....I'm not so sure that's exactly what developers had in mind.
But Safari for Windows is an interesting one. I guess it kind of makes sense, one advantage is that it allows web developers on Windows to test for the other side easily (could more banks and web apps now be inspired to make them work with Safari?). Second, with more exposure, it helps point out some of its flaws more easier and lights a fire under Apple's butt to fix them. Third, the whole iPhone development thing.
I certainly don't see it unseating Firefox (or even IE), but it'll compliment it well. Especially if it renders as fast as they claim and is lightweight on the system resources. I could see Safari hurting Opera, though.
I just tried Safari 3 beta on Mac and while it doesn't appear to be greatly different on the surface, it does seem to render pages faster. Not to mention they FINALLY got around to fixing a nasty bug with Flash animation whenever menus hover down over them.