Submission + - Steve Jobs WWDC keynote
Denis Troller writes: Steve Job unveiled some news about the future of Leopard and the iPhone in its WWDC keynote on monday:
- Games are coming to the Mac. EA announced a series of games, and ID software gave a quick demo of their engine running on MacOS. ID said there would be more at E3.
- The features of Leopard are basically as presented last year. No mention of ZFS, even when presenting Time Machine (which seems to be a backup solution on a separate hard drive)
- The Finder gets an updated look, with a unified theme (no more inconsistent looks throughout the system) and complete integration of Spotlight (even with Time Machine, alloing a spotlight search to be browse across time). The Finder now sports "Quick Look", a system-wide preview system for any kind of files (through plugins) that tie in with a "cover flow" (a la iTunes) new folder view, and with iChat, allowing to preview any file in iChat as part of a videoconfenence.
- The iPhone WILL have third party apps, through Safari and AJAX. Those apps can feature the iPhone look and tie in with phone functionnality (demo of a corporate ldap based contact manager which can place phone calls).
- Safari will be available for Windows XP & Vista. A beta version is downloadable from Apple's website. This might be more a way to allow Windows developper to test their iPhone app than anything else.
Check out http://www.macrumorslive.com/ (or your favourite mac lore-mongering website) for a complete feature list.
- Games are coming to the Mac. EA announced a series of games, and ID software gave a quick demo of their engine running on MacOS. ID said there would be more at E3.
- The features of Leopard are basically as presented last year. No mention of ZFS, even when presenting Time Machine (which seems to be a backup solution on a separate hard drive)
- The Finder gets an updated look, with a unified theme (no more inconsistent looks throughout the system) and complete integration of Spotlight (even with Time Machine, alloing a spotlight search to be browse across time). The Finder now sports "Quick Look", a system-wide preview system for any kind of files (through plugins) that tie in with a "cover flow" (a la iTunes) new folder view, and with iChat, allowing to preview any file in iChat as part of a videoconfenence.
- The iPhone WILL have third party apps, through Safari and AJAX. Those apps can feature the iPhone look and tie in with phone functionnality (demo of a corporate ldap based contact manager which can place phone calls).
- Safari will be available for Windows XP & Vista. A beta version is downloadable from Apple's website. This might be more a way to allow Windows developper to test their iPhone app than anything else.
Check out http://www.macrumorslive.com/ (or your favourite mac lore-mongering website) for a complete feature list.
