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Old June 11th, 2007, 08:10 PM
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I for one quite like the new look of Finder / Desktop / Dock in Leopard. It is a little too glamorous in a few spots - I think putting Coverflow in Finder is the computing equivalent of putting pink neons under your car. However the use of stacks, and using metadata to provide multipage previewing capabilities is a very neat way to improve usability. The way Finder is now arranged, with an iTunes source-list style on the left pane, is quite good and would make passing around work in a small office like mine a lot neater.

And kudos to Apple for making an iPhone SDK available - it will make it a more viable proposition in the long term.
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I wonder when they will make the latest build/showing available to developers (not at the conf).
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Old June 11th, 2007, 09:20 PM
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And kudos to Apple for making an iPhone SDK available - it will make it a more viable proposition in the long term.
Sadly, they didn't do that.
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Old June 11th, 2007, 09:53 PM
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Old June 11th, 2007, 11:55 PM
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Sadly, they didn't do that.
So I see. I just read over the press release, and the wording sounds a little strange and uncertain. It sounds like Apple have decided to do this due to strong public feedback, and are still working out the details.
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Doesn't the new OS X Dock look strangely similar to the dock in Sun Microsystems' Project Looking Glass?

Apple's Dock still looks much better though....
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nice find nix -- very similar!
I have my dock down the left side, not sure how well that will work with the new dock.

No hardware announcements which is disappointing. And still no indication of a new iPod. I realise it is WWDC, so iPod isn't exactly a high priority, but it's been so long between revisions. iPod is really starting to look dated -- I hope Apple aren't completely abandoning the iPod line on the assumption the iPhone will take over.
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So I see. I just read over the press release, and the wording sounds a little strange and uncertain. It sounds like Apple have decided to do this due to strong public feedback, and are still working out the details.
Well they basically just reminded people that they could make their own websites and view them in Safari. That's as far as third party development gets on the iPhone. Very disappointing.

If it truly is OS X, it will hopefully be hacked soon after release.

There will be no iPod updates until at least September. The whole free iPod when you buy a Mac thing is to get rid of the older models.
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