Monday afternoon sessions
I cannot talk about the contents of these sessions as they are confidential. I can only say that the contents were very informative and everyone seemed pleased. My strongest fear was that most improvements to Leopard were only skin deep but fortunately it doesn’t seem to be so.
What is clear to me though is that the improvements have not been across the board in a uniform way. Some APIs are advancing really quickly while others remain almost stagnant. It seems that Apple has a very clear idea of what they need for their own applications and that these new APIs are driven by these needs. External developers are invited to use those APIs but do not really drive the requirements. Apple may be right, they may know better, but I would love to have a better feedback process at my disposal that would return some say to the Macintosh programer community.