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For six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul

Wednesday, June 30, 2004

My Thoughts about the Apple WWDC 2004 keynote, version 2.0

JBQ's spot: "My experience with MacOS has been good and bad. Good, because the system is rock-solid, reasonably fast, and gets the job done. In my experience, Linux doesn't 'get the job done' for what I need (the Gimp is no substitute for Photoshop), and Windows seemed less predictable (although in my extensive experience with Windows XP it is definitely very solid, fast, and gets the job done). The bad part is that what were supposed to be the strong points of MacOS didn't materialize for me (plug-and-play and intuitive UI) ... I went to the Steve Jobs opening keynote of the 2004 WWDC on Monday June 28, getting in with a media pass in order to take pictures for OSnews.com ... I can't get myself to seriously trust anything that Steve Jobs said. In a number of instances I believe that what he said was false or wilfully misleading, and this definitely has a negative influence on all the other aspects ... My big problem is with Apple's propaganda on the one hand poking fun at Microsoft for probably copying in longhorn some of the features from Tiger, yet failing to acknowledge that some of the features of Tiger were at least 'heavily inspired' by what some other companies have been doing ... In some instances the Spotlight user interface to create some of the queries looked incredibly like the BeOS tracker, to the point where once again Steve Jobs' forward-looking poking fun at Microsoft for probably introducing a similar feature in a few years seems out-of-place as Steve Jobs himself should look in a mirror."

A good second take, but this guy doesn't know enough about the development history of Windows, as a lot of the Tiger stuff has been in the works for some time on Windows as well.

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