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[Matt W]

So, were you pleased with the announcements?

If you haven't seen it, http://stream.apple.akadns.net/ is where all 
the good news is to be found. The stream is 1.5 hours, but well worth 
the watch. The stream is quite watchable at full-screen with MP4 
encoding, however once H.264 comes of age in QT next year... Ahhhh. 
Heaven!

I'm intrigued by the actual GIU enhancements in Tiger that make it hard 
for people NOT to see and find what they're looking for. There's also 
so much "LaunchBar" type text searching for things in Tiger. I'm really 
getting into text-based app opening and so on. It really becomes 2nd 
nature and hard to live without when gone.

I wouldn't expect much at this summer's Macworld. That's probably why 
it's all coming out now, a little bit each week.

Matthew

On Jun 28, 2004, at 11:45 AM, Bailey Ford wrote:

> OK, just for fun, here are my predictions for the WWDC keynote:
>
> Tiger stuff - Apple announced that they would be talking about Tiger 
> or Mac OS 10.4. There's supposed to be this thing called pipeline, and 
> a new kind of smart folder that stores a particular search, lots of 
> speculation about a database system for a new Finder and improved 
> support for metadata in files.
>
> New Displays - this is pretty well agreed upon by most of the rumor 
> sites. Looks like 20, 23, 30 inches with the 17 inch being dropped 
> from the line.
>
> And one more thing...
> Apple's Microsoft Office killer. I think they are going to do some 
> kind of software that will make them an industry-wide compatible first 
> rate solution for doing word processing, spreadsheets, etc. We already 
> have large parts of that (Mail, Address Book, Calendar, Keynote). 
> Also, there are 4 posters hung up at WWDC that are very specifically 
> targeted to take on Microsoft.
>
> No new powerbooks, no new imacs.
>
> OK. That's my wacky idea. We'll see how I do.
>
> -bailey
>
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