WWDC 2006 Keynote impressions
Well, I finally know what it feels to attend a Steves Jobs keynote. I think that we all enjoyed seeing him throw poisoned attacks at Microsoft. However, Apple seems a little defensive by not disclosing the full feature set of Leopard. Such caution seems understandable. It is probably better to keep some secrets until Vista is released so that Microsoft cannot copy those features until their next Windows release, sometime in 2011. As a teaser, the demonstration worked well. I feel however that Apple will have to add more to OS X to make the upgrading process really interesting. As some developers told me, Core Animation seems interesting but most of us haven’t even started doing interesting things with Quartz composer…
What really impressed a lot of developers, though were the hardware announcements. You hace to see the new Mac Pro line. They are simply amazing. Swapping or adding a disk or adding memory is so easy that you simply cannot imagine why not everyone has computers like this one. It will be hard to beat Apple on serviceability.
Time to go, I have to attend a session on development tools..