WWDC Keynote
Jun 11th, 2007 by atrommer
Well, I watched Gizmodo’s live blog of the keynote (bad video available here) and overall I wasn’t too impressed. I don’t know, I figured there would be a much bigger revelation than Safari on Windows and the new Dock. Everything else was old hat. I can’t always get QuickLook to work correctly in iTunes, so I’m a bit hesitant for it in Finder, but the demo looked cool. I guess the most surprising thing was how overly hyped the iPhone was, and then Apple said it wasn’t going to allow 3P developers, and then last month they finally said that they would, only to find out that all they are offering is this Brand New Concept(tm) called Web Apps! Oh Apple, you really are leading the industry! What will you think of next? User-replaceable batteries?
So yes, that was a let down. But, on the plus side, VMWare released their new beta today of Fusion. It’s amazing (for it not being X) and the Unity feature really does work well. I put together a screenshot that makes me feel very dirty: 
Anyway, I checked out Safari on XP and I could never get it to get past our corporate firewall. After I would authenticate, Safari would die. Interal sites worked fine, so it was partially fun filled.
As for the rest of the night, I have some cleaning up to do and then some Forza2 (just the demo because I’m cheap). Yeah, that sounds alright to me.
Safari on Windows may not be that big a deal to you, but us non Mac owners are pretty psyched. I agree that it was funny to watch Jobs try to get people excited about no new SDK, because it’s got Safari……TADA!!!
So I’ll put this in the comments here, since you may be the only person who would read my blog that would care. Safari crashed for me once, but other than that it was definitely faster. Only a few problems, like it doesn’t reserve the top right pixel when it’s maximized, so if you click there it closes the window BEHIND it. Here’s my equivalent of your picture that I took yesterday, only it made me happy that I can test web sites across all three:
http://home.comcast.net/~wagnj3/3google.png
And then here’s a screenshot of the new desktop layout I”m trying. I call it “OS Confusion.” I’m running XP, but I’m using ObjectDock to create a OS X-like menu bar. And I put up a GNOME background, mostly for fun
http://picasaweb.google.com/Robbie.Thompson/RobAndJessica/photo?authkey=-p6SkKRcaQA#5073426552597946338