“Apples [sic] says the new OS will offer 250 new features, including new multi-touch features, tap to zoom, and something called Mission Control, which is some sort of organizational system,” John C. Dvorak writes for PC Magazine. “It mainly consists of a lot of tweaks, putting more and more iPhone features on the desktop. Generally speaking, these features are not needed on a mouse-centric desktop OS. For some reason, there also seems to be some ‘golly-gee-whiz we can do full screen!’ One interesting moment was the announcement that the new mail client has Boolean Search. Wow. For this, Apple got applause.”
“Mac App store: No real news, but the company thinks most software for the Mac will be sold via the App Store,” Dvorak writes. “Each minor comment was greeted with ridiculous applause. What’s interesting here is that all future upgrades of the OS will only be delivered via the App Store. No more CDs coming from Apple. You can be certain that Microsoft will consider this in the future… Versions: This is the ability to go back to prior versions of documents. (Yawn)”
Dvorak writes, “Finally, after one hour and 20 minutes Steve Jobs comes back out to discuss the iCloud. He spent his time moaning about how all his devices are driving people crazy, because they cannot sync anything. Jobs then described a pretty generic description of cloud computing, saying that MobileMe is now a cloud app, although it seemed to be a cloud idea before. I’m not sure what is so new about any of this.”
“Apple also added an interesting feature called iTunes Match for $24.99. It will literally match your collection of non-iTunes music to the music in the cloud, and you can sync that on your devices for the flat yearly fee. The limit is 20,000 ripped songs,” Dvorak writes. “That was basically it. I suppose others will manage to deconstruct all this and say that something revolutionary was announced. Please, tell me what it was.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Besides having an abnormal sensitivity to applause (or is it just applause for Apple?), the gasbag has now become so bloated that he cannot see anything as he drifts around at such a high altitude.
The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a “mouse.” There is no evidence that people want to use these things. I don’t want one of these new fangled devices. – John C. Dvorak, 1984
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “rhyde” for the heads up.]