It’s that time of the year again…
For the Techies out there: WWDC. Now, if you would have asked me about that 4 years ago I would say “Huh? What’s that?” Now I find myself checking my Google Reader looking for the latest news about it, or browsing Mac Rumors which has live updates. And some of the stuff seems sweet!
First: the iPhone. I want one. I think it looks sweet, and it would be a nice tool as well as a toy. What’s not to love about that? (Well besides the price tag). And if you’re wondering I will not be buying one anytime soon, as the cell phone contracts are a hindrance. Unless they have some super sweet deal and buy out contracts. Anything is possible. We’ll see.
Second: Safari on a PC? I’m not sure about that. I can understand (with some help) why they would want to do that. But I don’t imagine they would get a huge following. I think people would use FireFox before Safari, but I could be wrong. In fact a lot of Mac users I know use FireFox on their Mac, instead of safari.
Third: OS X Leopard. That looks like it has some nice bells and whistles. I probably will not upgrade right away. I think I will likely wait until I get a new Mac which will be quite sometime off. I will definitely love playing around on Leopard when I visit the Apple Store after it comes out.
Also the Apple website has a new design to it, which is kind of pretty.
Also of note: I applied to be a Mac Specialist today. We’ll see if they give me a call back. Here’s hoping as I think it would be a fun place to work, and it would be nice to pick up some extra hours to save up for a House!
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I am sadly one of the only Safari users that I know, so Safari on Windows does get me excited. I downloaded it on my work machine (an XP box), and it is fast, but there are plenty of bugs to work out. A few failed logins and crashes here and there, nothing I wouldn’t expect from a beta (this isn’t a Google beta, anyways).
What I don’t get is why they would do this. Quicktime has been on windows since forever. iTunes was there to push the music store and thereby push iPods. How does Safari on Windows help Apple? Even free software takes money to develop, so they must be trying to recoup this money through it somehow. Any ideas?
Comment by Pete — June 12, 2007 @ 6:06 am
The only reason I can think of to have Safari be used on XP is to make it easier for people who may try to design stuff for the iPhone.
I’m still in the rather confused stage of it all.
And I would like to mention that I’m a little disappointed that was their “And one more thing…”
Comment by bleaus — June 12, 2007 @ 7:39 am
I agree, there wasn’t any “oh my goodness, I can’t believe they just did that” revelations. I guess it makes sense that they want to make it easier for iPhone development, since the iPhone uses Safari to display web content. Alright, I’m satisfied with that.
Comment by Pete — June 12, 2007 @ 9:03 pm