C’mon Apple…

Posted by on June 9, 2008 Leave a comment (2) Go to comments

When did WWDC turn into Macworld? Did I miss the memo?

I recognize that right now the iPhone is a huge thing for Apple, bigger than the iPod, and significantly more popular than the Mac, but for all intents and purposes the *entire* new keynote was focused on the iPhone…are you freaking kidding me? No new *Mac* product announcements? No new “Snow Leopard” Announcements (that are public and not going to be locked down under NDA)?

I realize that if the rumors are true, 10.6 is going to be a staggering contrast to the rapid evolution and feature-fiesta we are used to seeing in every major OS X release to date, and could potentially seem embarrassing in some light after all the gut-kicking they have been giving Vista and Microsoft in general.

My summary of the Keynote:

iPhone good, Windows mobile bad.
.Mac = MobileMe (Whoa guys…nearly blew our socks off with that one…</sarcasm>)
iPhone 3G, now you can have trouble typing at 3G speeds!

And sadly that’s about all i took out of it. Both listening to an audio stream and monitoring the text feed adn the images MacRumors was posting, the best summary by Mark:

“Worst Keynote Ever.”

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  • http://tonyarnold.com Tony Arnold

    I was there. This year was definitely for the newbs, and while I flew 13 hours looking for proper, meaty technical content – I got bananas. The truly technical sessions were few and far between, and everything was like “Cocoa for dummies”.

    My assumption would be that if you’re spending over $1500 to go to a conference (or $3700 in my case), you’re going to know more than “mac good. pc bad.” when you walk through the doors.

    On the positive side, I guess that means we’re going to get a great new range of developers in our community.

  • http://tonyarnold.com Tony Arnold

    I was there. This year was definitely for the newbs, and while I flew 13 hours looking for proper, meaty technical content – I got bananas. The truly technical sessions were few and far between, and everything was like “Cocoa for dummies”.

    My assumption would be that if you’re spending over $1500 to go to a conference (or $3700 in my case), you’re going to know more than “mac good. pc bad.” when you walk through the doors.

    On the positive side, I guess that means we’re going to get a great new range of developers in our community.