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Apple vs Microsoft- Who's the Copycat?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the does-it-really-matter dept.

torrensmith writes "Paul Thurrott attacks the Apple Mac OS X Leopard Preview. He does have a few kind words for Apple and its leader Steve Jobs ("They do good work. It's too bad they feel the need to exaggerate so much.", but overall, he rips apart Apple for mimicking Vista, even going so far as to call the Apple fascination with Vista "childish." Paul does include a healthy review of the latest Leopard features, but quickly returned to his bashing of Apple. "

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  1. They were probably intended to. by Trillan · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The features shown at WWDC were generally features developers want, and hints at the technology under them:

    • Time Machine will be a huge aid to developers. It will be even more awesome if there's a way to integrate it with source control systems.
    • A good Mac OS X solution for virtual desktops are all but lusted after by many developers.
    • Core Animation is bigger than big.
    • The new system voice was a kick in the pants for developers that haven't added voice over support yet, and the hints at new navigation methods are also important since it means adding the metadata to the interface that Apple has been asking for.
    • Dashcode and Webclip are hints at what sort of widgets developers should be working on.
    • The new iChat and Mail features are hugely important to mid-scale collaborative development.

    (I'm not saying all the features shown appeal only to developers, of course, just that Jobs and crew knew their audience. Many of these features appeal to other groups, too: iChat, Time Machine and Mail clearly appeal to other computer professionals who spend their job working on a Mac. WebClip will appeal to even casual users.)

  2. Re:Mocking? by schuster · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Speaking as a mac user, I too, was unimpressed. What everyone seems to continually forget is that Jobs also said that there were "top secret" features. The reality is, we still have no idea what's in leopard. Personally, I'm afriad of feature bloat right now.

    I think that all Jobs was trying to accomplish with the demo was to give developers an idea of leopard's power and show them what kinds of things it can do. He showed developers how the address book tied into time machine to give them an example of the kinds of things timemachine can do. He also did it to show them how they could take advantage of it in their own applications. Once he did the demo of the addressbook, he included a few new features in mail to go along with it. With Core Animation, all he wanted to do was show developers what kinds of things it could do. Finally, the whole point of the iChat demo was to show developers what kinds of things leopard is capable of.

    People are thinking too hard about the leopard demo. The demo was only supposed to be a display of a few of the technologies that are in it. We still know nothing about what leopard is and what it isn't.

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  3. Re:Who Cares About Copying Useful Features? by poot_rootbeer · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Careful, Gates calls people with ideas like yours "Terrorists."

    No he doesn't. And as far as I'm aware, he never has in the past, either.

    I realize that Gates-bashing and Microsoft-bashing are popular pastimes here at Slashdot, but maybe we could limit our attacks to things that they have actually done or said?