I’m curious what a bunch of Cocoa developers thought of a buggy Windows browser being released at their own conference? The argument that they shouldn’t be announcing hardware at WWDC isn’t helped by Apple’s release of Safari for Windows users. I’m curious about that.

I’m curious about how those same developers feel knowing that resources were supposedly taken away from 10.5′s development to create the iPhone, but they magically had plenty of resources to develop a Safari for Windows in that same time. Very curious.

I’m also curious what those same cocoa developers think about being told that they can’t have any part in writing software for the iPhone—unless of course they want to use Ajax. Whooptie do! I can make a shopping list for the grocery store! What? You mean my grocery store doesn’t have free wi-fi? I have to be connected to the ‘net all the time? The data plan costs how much? Where did I put my pen and paper again?

I’m also very curious about the complete lack of an update mentioned for metadata. Tiger’s metadata implementation is fine if you never want to ADD metadata to a file…But guess what? I do want to use metadata proactively. I want to tag all of my project files with project metadata so I can set up a smart folder and only have 1 copy (plus a backup of course) of a huge .PSD file that’s linked to 20-30 different projects. Stinkin’ Windows Vista can do this. But I’m not a Windows user for a reason. Why is Apple dropping this ball? Oh, so curious.

Seriously, if you are only going to use the phone part of the iPhone, there are a lot of other phones out there that are a lot cheaper and work really well as a phone.

PS @Mrad: re “just control click/right click on an element in a page and select “inspect element”. You’ll see what I mean” I see no opion / menu item to “inspect element” … can you please explain what you mean?

I think they are moving in the right direction for .Mac. I’m still not interested yet, but if they do some more stuff with it when iLife ’07 comes out, then I might just be interested.

And yes, a full year ago Jobs told us that they were holding back several Leopard features that were top secret. Yesterday he took what should have been one bullet point, and stretched it out to 3 (Desktop, Finder, QuickView). And that is where the so called top secret features ended.

The disappointment has a lot to do with Jobs setting the expectation much higher than he delivered. I agree that something must have changed, and some 10.5 features must have been pushed back to 10.6.

But overall I was a bit let down with the keynote – I wasn’t really expecting new hardware, but I was wanting to see a bit more of Leopard. But I’m friggin’ foaming at the mouf for an iPhone!

To really wow me, how about making iLife cross platforms? That would be really amazing for us non-mac users who dream of getting a Mac soon, or at least Mac functionality.

Right now, on first look, I had wanted to play with it, to help with my transition-to-Mac jitters. All this has done is to say, ah just another web browser, with other web browsers that I am already using having more features and a lot more flexibility.

For the Apple Software developers, welcome to competition! You are now on Windows, and if you are here to stay, you have to compete with a handful really creative, independant developers.

R

Leopardy goodness :-)