Technical and logistical issues may keep MDN from updating through certain portions of today. We will update the site with Steve Jobs’ WWDC news and announcements as soon as possible.
MDN recommends the following site for WWDC keynote coverage:
http://www.macnn.com/
An alternate page for live keynote coverage is here:
http://www.macrumors.com/events/wwdc2004.html
For those looking for a QuickTime stream, “Apple Computer, Inc. will most likely provide a delayed webcast of its World Wide Developers Conference 2004 keynote address on Monday afternoon, sources said. Last week, sources close to Apple’s content distribution partners noted a hefty fee associated with Apple’s webcasts, especially those streamed live. Sources said the company may have chosen to save some cash by providing a delayed broadcast,” AppleInsider notes.
We’ll let you know if/when the stream appears on Apple.com and we’ll get everything around here up-to-date ASAP.
solar flare,
Apple didn’t steal the idea from MSFT, the metadata filesystem was a feature of BeOS, and surprise, surprise, the guy who implemented it for Be Inc. went to work at Cupertino a couple years ago.
critics and zealots. does anyone not remember the prerelease info we all got on Panther? Ewwww, FontBook! This is what Apple is good at, showing the highlights but keeping all the real functionality behind the curtain.
All the real hard core stuff didn’t come out until just a couple of months before the release of Panther and some stuff wasn’t released till just days before the release.
As for Spotlight. You people have to pay more attention to the world around you. Cataloging your resource files other than a folder structure has been a concept for some time now. Yes, this is a concept that M$ is considering for LongHaul, but if you think Apple is taking from their example, you are just stupid. And M$’s 1.0 level of success it to be measured by their past success.
As for Apple, we have already been using this type of technology with such apps as iTunes. I don’t know about you, but I don’t manage my music folders or go searching for a song through the finder. I can search by name, genre, album, artist. Now expand your minds to placing that type of extensible search and cataloging data to your everyday files. Creation dates, authors, application, files or pixel size, etc. Yes, there will still be folders, but the days of just searching for something solely on file name and location are quickly passing us by.
And if you don’t think that functionality like that is not worth $129, then your iPod should only be worth $1.25.
Well, odd rock from the Siberian Ukraine – it all depends on how reworked the finder is. Let us see how great the finder looks like my main American-friend. I suppose Tiger will ship with the new Powerbook G5 – so it looks like I will be saving my rubles anyway for when revision 2 comes out after Apple fixes it’s first round of quality-control issues with the new Pb G5 – like, melting keyboards, warped lids, uneven trackpads, exploding screens, etc.
Gorbachev, why don’t you just go buy a freaking Dell then you will actually have something to complain about.
In my office we gave had the same G4 Macs for close to two years now and have had no problem. The Dell PC’s, well – at least everyone has been in for service at least once if not returned for a whole new machine.
This is America Gorbachev, you DO have a choice here.
The Register has a pretty good summary, though nothing new. The comment at the end, however, nearly put me on the floor laughing. “While Redmond blogs, Cupertino codes.”
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/28/macosx_tiger_preview/
Supports 64-bit applications! This is going to be interesting. Will Longwait, if/when it ever appears?
<<And not even porting ichat to make it compatible with windoze. Still isolated mac-mac conferencing….Yawn..>>
That’s interesting, too bad you’re dead wrong. AOL Instant Messenger IS available for Windows and iChat users can conference with AIM users. Get your facts straight before posting here and looking like a moron…
Konfabulator sucks so who cares. Dashboard surely won’t be a bug ridden system hog like Konfabulator is…
Boring WWDC keynote. No wonder Steve didn’t carry it live. He should rename Tiger…OSX Now Utilites 10.4
Gorbachev,
So you didn’t get what you wanted, but the announcements are by no means a yawn as you stated. A metadata driven filesystem is actually a very big deal; ask any BeOS afficionado to explain it to you in words of one syllable. So is a 64-bit OS, consumer videoconferencing, visual scripting etc. I guess that map of Albania on your forehead was obscuring your vision.
WWDC2004 stream is now available…
http://stream.apple.akadns.net/
(quality kinda sucks – but hey it’s better than nothing)