Leopard Still Caged
January 10th, 2007
Apple
- The iPhone looks great and will sell extremely well. I will not be buying one because I use my phone maybe once every three days and hate phones in general. My interest in the device relates to the design; multi-touch interactions, the possibility that it is using a vector-based UI, the use of animation, etc.
- Somewhat ironic that Nokia probably wrote some of the code that the lightweight version of Safari uses.
- Being based on OS X technologies, does the iPhone support text-to-speech and VoiceOver? Blind people use phones too…
- The Apple TV box is interesting, but I’m not much of a television viewer. Pass.
I understand the desire to keep the focus on the iPhone (probably why iTV/appletv was announced early), but I was/am most looking forward to the full revelation of Mac OS X 10.5, something I’ll eventually use every day professionally and personally. I assume that a substantial overhaul is underway, meaning the final design is not ready to show off. Perhaps full resolution independence is coming earlier than expected!
As for hardware, I’m eager to see when the latest Intel quad-core processors find their way inside the Mac Pro towers. Assuming the aforementioned resolution independence support, high DPI (160, perhaps?) displays with embedded cameras would also be nice.
Others’ Thoughts
- Rob Griffiths: Expo reaction: iDisappointed
- Dan Wood: iPhone … YAWWWWNNN if you can’t develop for it
Independent Mac Devs
These announcements were made circa, if not at, Macworld.
- The forthcoming version of Now Up-to-Date & Contact has some nice touches. Overkill for me, but for someone like my father, who has a huge contact list that plays an important role in his everyday business, it’s probably worth a spin.
- If you are happy with Address Book for your contacts, but need a more flexible calendar, check out the recently released even-t 2.0 beta.
- GyazMail finally has IMAP support. I’m not wild about the interface (searching specifically), but I know a lot of people dislike Mail for various reasons.
It’s strange that you are not interested in the iPhone because you don’t use phones much and hate them in general. I feel likewise, but that’s part of the appeal… I see the iPhone as an iPod that also happens to have a phone grafted on so I don’t have to keep carrying both around.