“Steve Jobs’ minimal contribution to his annual WWDC keynote yesterday amounted to little more than handing over the proceedings to his lieutenants. Jobs himself concentrated on doing something we already know he does quite well: bash Microsoft. ‘You know, our friends up north spent over $5 billion on R&D,’ said Jobs, “but these days all they seem to be copying is Google and Apple. Shows money doesn’t buy everything,'” Andrew Orlowski writes for The Register.
Orlowski writes, “There are days when taunts can backfire, however, and yesterday was one of them. Apple chose only to offer a ‘sneak preview’ of some of the features of Leopard, but these failed to match the taunt that the OS was ‘Vista 2.0.’ On the basis of the evidence so far the sixth release of Mac OS X is, to put it bluntly, a point release… Jobs hinted that some features may be disclosed nearer the launch next spring. ‘There’s some top secret features we’re going to keep a little close to the vest,’ he said on stage. He meant to say ‘close to the chest,’ but perhaps the stock investigation is weighing heavily on his mind.”
Full article here.
No, Andy, Mr. Jobs meant “close to the vest.” Look it up. Perhaps they don’t have that particular saying in Snideville? Now, what’s the point of this immeasurably small article when Orlowski clearly reports that Jobs is keeping parts of Leopard secret, so that Microsoft won’t do the usual botched copy job of said parts? Given that, Apple’s taunts were obviously reinforced, not undermined. Orlowski’s article is rendered pointless by none other than Andrew Orlowski himself.
So, in the end, as is often the case, the esteemed hack Mr. Orlowski has told us nothing: Apple bashed Microsoft, but that was wrong because Apple didn’t show anything special in Leopard even though it’s clear that Jobs is keeping certain top secret features of Leopard “close to the vest.” Oh yeah, Orlowski also somehow faults Jobs for using the phrase “close to the vest” appropriately, no less. At least he didn’t call Jobs “skinny.”
After all of that pointlessness, Orlowski ices his crap cake and wishes for Leopard’s topmost secret to be Apple’s 14-year-old idea known as “Piles.” Orlowski even drags out diagrams and everything. Sheesh.
Stick to writing 500 words of weak, conflicting, and meaningless snideness, Andrew. Leave the OS features to the experts in Cupertino, California.
Related articles:
Apple previews Mac OS X Leopard featuring Time Machine, Spaces, enhanced Mail & iChat, and more – August 07, 2006
Microsoft to use Apple’s ‘Piles’ in Longhorn? – March 22, 2005
Mac OS X 10.3 Panther ‘Piles’ screenshots posted online – April 26, 2003
The Register goes deep inside Apple’s Piles – April 23, 2003