WWDC ‘09 Round-Up. Fact & Fiction
Cheaper iPhone & Macs announced. I thought quality came at a premium? Wonder if some company’s advertising had anything to do with it?
Mabooks get Firewire 800 ports. Wait … didn’t Apple remove them earlier?
iPhone now at $99, $199 & $299. ah! In your dreams!
iPhone to get Cut/Copy/Paste. Innovation FTW!
iPhone has ‘Find My Phone’. You’ll need to get MobileMe for that.
‘Find My Phone’ has Remote Wipe. No. This wasn’t copied from anyone.
iPhone 3G[S] does Video Recording & responds to voice commands. No phone has done this before. Even previous iPhone iterations can’t. Apple #WIN!
iPhone 3G[S] has a Compass app. Cool! ‘Find my Phone’ if the phone gets lost & Compass if you get lost. Sweet!
Snow Leopard is faster than Leopard. I thought newer versions need to be slow. :|
Snow Leopard has a better dock. You can now preview videos in the dock. It’s all about innovation err… wait, I meant inspiration.
Snow Leopard not for PowerPC. Not available for pre-2006 PCs, sad. That other OS even brings junk to life!
Safari has a new feature. Again, not influenced at all.
Safari is the world’s fastest browser. Sure!
Other than this, Scott Forstall was tricked into doing the most boring part of the keynote yet again. Steve Jobs didn’t show up as predicted.
ROFL.
Btw there is another article I am sure you would enjoy.
http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/06/09/marshymellow-apples-hypocrisy-is-blinding
LOL Nice Post manan :)
Excellent. You beat me to it with this post :P Couldn’t have written it better myself.
I’m amazed at how “cool” the sheeple think something is, then down-play it when you tell them that a competitor has had the same functionality for months or even years.
:: sigh ::
– http://www.JoeLevi.com
So what if they copied microsoft? Are you trying to tell me microsoft hasn’t copied anyone ever? Apple never claimed in this keynote that they invented remote wiping, and the way you mock how snow leopard is faster is ludicrous. Apple is just giving its users what they wanted, even if it isn’t innovative. They’re trying to please their users. I bet if Microsoft stole features from the Mac you wouldn’t complain. In fact they have done, so many times in the past.
Yes, MSFT has taken features but they’ve never mocked Apple. They have never bashed an Apple product during the launch of their own like Mr. Bertrand did or Apple usually does. The point is that people should realize that Apple is not this Godly company that comes up with everything first & only they do it. They keep mocking MSFT yet keep taking features from them. Arrogant & ignorant. Something that I hate about Apple more than it’s policies on it’s products & the products themselves.
Don’t listen to the winboy. It’s obvious he has been bent over by a Microsoft exec, and fears that the news will get out so he continues to bend over. Of course, getting fucked by MS execs is nothing new for these winboys, after all, that’s the no.1 clause required to get an MVP.
Now I’ll answer your points half-heartedly, only because I’m waiting in the middle of nowhere, with nothing to do, and a crappy Win XP laptop plugged into the cloud.
1. These are MacBook Pros now. Big difference. :)
2. Quality comes at a price
3. Copy Paste is not as important as the rest of the innovations Apple brought in earlier.
4. So? You’d rather not have this feature?
5. An enterprise feature in a consumer package (a.k.a MobileMe).
6. Comparing the awesome video quality of the 3G S with the piss poor crap you get with a Nokia? The problem is, with other phones the companies don’t have to worry about the flash RAM wearing out after repeated use, since no one uses it so. But when it comes to vid recording on the iPhone, oh, the Flip is going to have a serious competitor.
7. The compass will aid in turn by turn directions, and will also aid in creating new gameplay since the device can use the compass data in addition to the accelerometer.
8. Well, Microsoft makes you feel that way doesn’t it.
9. Huh? Who copied whom and what?
10. Apple skates to where the puck is, not where it’s been. Leopard is as good as it gets for PPC users.
11. Well, I won’t comment on Safari.
Your friend,
Rambo
Fuck you Rambo. I’ve got a bigger gun than you. Go back to humping Forstall now won’t you?
*gun being a metaphor for something ‘bigger’.