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Monday, June 11, 2007
WWDC roundup - Leopard features, Safari 3 for MAC & WINDOWS, & iPhone 3rd party dev details
WWDC turned out to not be as warm-n-fuzzy special as I'd hoped - just a bunch of Leopard demos and iPhone details, and Safari 3 beta for Mac & Windows. Good, but not spectacular.
My thoughts on the biggies as they apply to what I/we do:
-full 64 bit support - good - means faster apps for us
-Time Machine - automate backups - we need these, and by far not enough folks do it
-Spaces will be nice when you're doing several things at once - It is entirely reasonable to imagine having FCP, Photoshop, Motion in spaces, or for later in the production pipeline Compressor, DVD Studio Pro, and FCP
-new Finder & Desktop are nice but not stupendous
-searching across the network will be handy (maybe Spotlight integrated next year?)
-Core Animation promises more pre-scripted motion graphics goodness in the future
-Boot Camp improves for running Windows apps on your system for those apps not on OS X
-Safari 3 beta for OS X...and XP and Vista as well - yep, Apple is making a free Windows web browser. Apple probably realized that iTunes was a tease of the Mac experience on Windows, and since iTunes already had so much web connectivity, it probably wasn't that hard to make the port.
-new and improved iChat may make remote work more viable. Somewhere I have a link about how to use a second Mac to stream Final Cut Pro video output to a client over iChat..improvements may make it work better
-Back to My Mac will be nice for remote work - your laptop on the road and your machines back home know each others' IP address (syncs via .Mac) - if you forgot something you can snag it (if not too big to pull it over broadband)
A lot of this stuff I don't particularly care about, but the thing that'll make me buy it for all my machines will be 64 bit support, Time Machine, and the ability to Spotlight search across the network.
Here's Engadget's posts on the matter, good summaries:
Apple's Mac OS X Leopard fully unveiled - Engadget
iPhone to ship on June 29th at 6pm - Engadget - 6pm, drat! So does that mean the line builds all day? I'd been planning on hanging out with some friends in line in the morning, this puts a dent in that plan.
That also makes it awkward - 6pm California time? Local time in each time zone? How will that work?
-=====
Apple announces third-party software details for iPhone - Engadget - third parties have to be a web app - therefore have to have a data connection, either WiFi or burning minutes/kbytes on your plan. Less than optimal, but it does let 3rd party developers in.
==========
Safari 3 for Windows - Engadget - yep, Safari for Windows, Apple - Safari 3 Public Beta - download it here for OS X, Vista, or XP.
MONDAY NIGHT UPDATE - I went to dinner with one of my oldest friends who is developing software that iPhone's presence potentially affects. I asked him what he thought of this third party developer situation, and he said it was excellent spin on Apple's part - they get to pitch it as "We were listening to you, and here's how we're going to support you." when in fact it is a "feature" that iPhone has had all along - the ability to load fully functional, Web 2.0 + AJAX type pages. But it still requires a web connection, and it isn't any new functionality whatsoever - 3rd parties are relegated to only what can be done with the sandbox of web pages. To me, that fits into the "Gee, that's mighty white of you." category.
I also talked to this same friend about geting an iPhone, and was equivocating saying I wanted to play with the software based touchscreen keyboard before I plunked down $600 for the thing. He was already shaking his head before I got to the end of the sentence. "Dude - you're talking to someone who bought a Newton." After I finished my laughing fit, he further elaborated - not MessagePad 1.10, NEWTON. He also bought an original Macintosh. Not a Mac 512KB, a MACINTOSH, back when there was precisely ONE product in the lineup.
I'm sure Jobs loves guys like that. (And I love him too, just for slightly different reasons).
Other comments - new folder icons - eh, not so great to me.
-mike
My thoughts on the biggies as they apply to what I/we do:
-full 64 bit support - good - means faster apps for us
-Time Machine - automate backups - we need these, and by far not enough folks do it
-Spaces will be nice when you're doing several things at once - It is entirely reasonable to imagine having FCP, Photoshop, Motion in spaces, or for later in the production pipeline Compressor, DVD Studio Pro, and FCP
-new Finder & Desktop are nice but not stupendous
-searching across the network will be handy (maybe Spotlight integrated next year?)
-Core Animation promises more pre-scripted motion graphics goodness in the future
-Boot Camp improves for running Windows apps on your system for those apps not on OS X
-Safari 3 beta for OS X...and XP and Vista as well - yep, Apple is making a free Windows web browser. Apple probably realized that iTunes was a tease of the Mac experience on Windows, and since iTunes already had so much web connectivity, it probably wasn't that hard to make the port.
-new and improved iChat may make remote work more viable. Somewhere I have a link about how to use a second Mac to stream Final Cut Pro video output to a client over iChat..improvements may make it work better
-Back to My Mac will be nice for remote work - your laptop on the road and your machines back home know each others' IP address (syncs via .Mac) - if you forgot something you can snag it (if not too big to pull it over broadband)
A lot of this stuff I don't particularly care about, but the thing that'll make me buy it for all my machines will be 64 bit support, Time Machine, and the ability to Spotlight search across the network.
Here's Engadget's posts on the matter, good summaries:
Apple's Mac OS X Leopard fully unveiled - Engadget
iPhone to ship on June 29th at 6pm - Engadget - 6pm, drat! So does that mean the line builds all day? I'd been planning on hanging out with some friends in line in the morning, this puts a dent in that plan.
That also makes it awkward - 6pm California time? Local time in each time zone? How will that work?
-=====
Apple announces third-party software details for iPhone - Engadget - third parties have to be a web app - therefore have to have a data connection, either WiFi or burning minutes/kbytes on your plan. Less than optimal, but it does let 3rd party developers in.
==========
Safari 3 for Windows - Engadget - yep, Safari for Windows, Apple - Safari 3 Public Beta - download it here for OS X, Vista, or XP.
MONDAY NIGHT UPDATE - I went to dinner with one of my oldest friends who is developing software that iPhone's presence potentially affects. I asked him what he thought of this third party developer situation, and he said it was excellent spin on Apple's part - they get to pitch it as "We were listening to you, and here's how we're going to support you." when in fact it is a "feature" that iPhone has had all along - the ability to load fully functional, Web 2.0 + AJAX type pages. But it still requires a web connection, and it isn't any new functionality whatsoever - 3rd parties are relegated to only what can be done with the sandbox of web pages. To me, that fits into the "Gee, that's mighty white of you." category.
I also talked to this same friend about geting an iPhone, and was equivocating saying I wanted to play with the software based touchscreen keyboard before I plunked down $600 for the thing. He was already shaking his head before I got to the end of the sentence. "Dude - you're talking to someone who bought a Newton." After I finished my laughing fit, he further elaborated - not MessagePad 1.10, NEWTON. He also bought an original Macintosh. Not a Mac 512KB, a MACINTOSH, back when there was precisely ONE product in the lineup.
I'm sure Jobs loves guys like that. (And I love him too, just for slightly different reasons).
Other comments - new folder icons - eh, not so great to me.
-mike
Comments:
This new 64 bit announcement affirms my thought that the Final Cut 6 that we got this NAB is NOT the new, rewritten one we were hoping for. I bet you a dollar that the all new, written-ground-up, 64bit one will come out next NAB and blow our socks off.
Hey, there are a couple new items under the iPhone website...click the symbols on the right and see demo's of touch screen, OS, etc.
KW
Hey, there are a couple new items under the iPhone website...click the symbols on the right and see demo's of touch screen, OS, etc.
KW
# posted by 
: Mon Jun 11, 02:25:00 PM CST
: Mon Jun 11, 02:25:00 PM CST
We've seen it before, and this works even now if set up properly, but the new iChat appears to bring us closer to remote editing nirvana.
Its a big enough deal that it can have a real influence on your lifestyle as an editor.
I recently cancelled a move back to Austin (in L.A. now) so I could work on a doc series. With the iChat multimedia tools going up a level in quality (AAC audio, QT movie sharing), well...I start to get wanderlust again.
- Christopher S. Johnson
Its a big enough deal that it can have a real influence on your lifestyle as an editor.
I recently cancelled a move back to Austin (in L.A. now) so I could work on a doc series. With the iChat multimedia tools going up a level in quality (AAC audio, QT movie sharing), well...I start to get wanderlust again.
- Christopher S. Johnson
other than 64bit, Apple has seemingly dropped the ball and taken some ideas from Vista especially after all of the bashing they have been doing with ads. If that was the top 10 features, OSX 10.5 is dead before its released.
# posted by : Mon Jun 11, 03:42:00 PM CST
: Mon Jun 11, 03:42:00 PM CST
Well, 64 bit IS a big deal. And long overdue, I might add.
But, Mike, it won't necessarily make all applications run faster, unless you're talking about apps that perform better with more memory at hand.
On the Windows platform, there's been 64 bit support for some time now, but the main problem is still a lack of apps supporting it (like After Effects (including CS3)). This will limit the app to addressing 3GB of memory max.
So the biggest deal will be: how many 64 bit apps are announced for OSX 10.5??
- marijn
But, Mike, it won't necessarily make all applications run faster, unless you're talking about apps that perform better with more memory at hand.
On the Windows platform, there's been 64 bit support for some time now, but the main problem is still a lack of apps supporting it (like After Effects (including CS3)). This will limit the app to addressing 3GB of memory max.
So the biggest deal will be: how many 64 bit apps are announced for OSX 10.5??
- marijn
They publically went over the splashier features, rather than more of the engineering side e.g. the multicore API which makes it easier for developers to write massively parallel supported applications. That's really, really cool and v important for media professionals.
I'm also underwhelmed by 10.5... except for TimeMachine despite the cheesy graphics.
But logging in and searching remotely is pretty useful - as long as there is a way to do it without dotMac. Been doing it for years over a terminal so good to get away from that.
I'm also very very interested to see what happens with CoreAnimation - that could be very big for Motion Graphics development and real time video work... I think there is more potential there than just more geewhizzgraphics for demoware.
Oh and HDforIndies crashes Safari on XP... check your server logs for any clues...
But logging in and searching remotely is pretty useful - as long as there is a way to do it without dotMac. Been doing it for years over a terminal so good to get away from that.
I'm also very very interested to see what happens with CoreAnimation - that could be very big for Motion Graphics development and real time video work... I think there is more potential there than just more geewhizzgraphics for demoware.
Oh and HDforIndies crashes Safari on XP... check your server logs for any clues...
I think this is the start of a new Jobsian era at Apple. They probably get a lot of complaints about only releasing products during big conferences... and sometimes financially people will wait before buying. Maybe what they'll actually do in the future is what they did with the Mac Pro Quad-Core, and Macbook Pro announcement and just roll them out when they're ready. So perhaps not quite as incredible keynotes going forward?
# posted by : Mon Jun 11, 10:48:00 PM CST
: Mon Jun 11, 10:48:00 PM CST
Am I the only person that thought that the core animation demo with the video clips was totally awesome? I mean, think about being able to use something like that in an editing environment. Obviously, those clips had to have meta-data tags in order to cataloged them, but the ability to see them in that view is incredible alone. I could only imagine this type of function going into FCP.
One reason why Smoke is such a good tool to work with, is gestural editing. Dragging and swiping, you can move really fast. Look at the iphone and core animation, and it's apparent that UI's are going to move more into gestural strokes. I think apple is on that track, and I'd be thrilled to see FCP gain this type of functionality. This, and moving away from quicktime only (support frame sequences) as well as hardware accelerated, final cut could move up in the world.
One reason why Smoke is such a good tool to work with, is gestural editing. Dragging and swiping, you can move really fast. Look at the iphone and core animation, and it's apparent that UI's are going to move more into gestural strokes. I think apple is on that track, and I'd be thrilled to see FCP gain this type of functionality. This, and moving away from quicktime only (support frame sequences) as well as hardware accelerated, final cut could move up in the world.
i think the HTML/etc. development model is a smart one.
simple programs that people will write and give out for free, such as tip calculators and simple games that people want on their phone, will not need more than that.
things that use databases... well, mobile SQL express for handhelds isn't the best thing in the world, presents all kinds of DBA issues with data ETL and such, and i think apple just wanted to avoid that whole mess altogether. instead, they can have a database on a web server, connect to it using AJAX or XML web services, and it'd remove those issues and be feature rich at the same time.
the only thing i can see that would be a pain would be serious game or audio/video codec/player development, but i'm sure apple wants to sell their own games anyways, and audio/video from their itunes store.
simple programs that people will write and give out for free, such as tip calculators and simple games that people want on their phone, will not need more than that.
things that use databases... well, mobile SQL express for handhelds isn't the best thing in the world, presents all kinds of DBA issues with data ETL and such, and i think apple just wanted to avoid that whole mess altogether. instead, they can have a database on a web server, connect to it using AJAX or XML web services, and it'd remove those issues and be feature rich at the same time.
the only thing i can see that would be a pain would be serious game or audio/video codec/player development, but i'm sure apple wants to sell their own games anyways, and audio/video from their itunes store.
I don't like the HTML/AJAX thing at all, it is basically a non-feature, since Safari should have always supported it to begin with.
Personally I want non-web related apps, like Filemaker Mobile and the Password program that I use on my mac and my treo. Without replacement for those I just can't see moving to an iPhone no matter how much I actually want one.
Personally I want non-web related apps, like Filemaker Mobile and the Password program that I use on my mac and my treo. Without replacement for those I just can't see moving to an iPhone no matter how much I actually want one.
Looks like the Sun exec got it wrong when he announced ZFS would be in Leopard, earlier this week...
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199903281&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_News
Richard
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199903281&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_News
Richard
# posted by : Tue Jun 12, 01:14:00 PM CST
: Tue Jun 12, 01:14:00 PM CST
Like others have said, the HTML iPhone dev is Apple's way of saying that they heard the clamor and are working on it - in the meantime you can do what you could have done anyway with the browser.
I'm sure in time they will have finished APIs published and a framework to build on. This product is 1.0 - it's not ready to be that open yet.
I'm sure in time they will have finished APIs published and a framework to build on. This product is 1.0 - it's not ready to be that open yet.
Web2.0/ajax thing is nothing more than putting a spin on something lacking from te iphone. Although rather than being impressed by the spinning i find it unsettling and annoying. Nothing against html-ajax but such unneccerary deception is just annoying. Call things with their own names please. Not presenting a proper SDK is a problem for the iPhone. Agree with this article...
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