WWDC 2007 Keynote News
Well... I happened to really like the MacRumors coverage of the WWDC keynote through IRC. I didn't think it'd be that different, but the response time is, of course, very fast for a chat connection, and even with the AJAX version of the web page, it's much faster to send just the text in chat than to update part of a page. So, I read the chat transcript and then looked at the pictures on the web page. Pretty nice.
Most of the keynote was Leopard, and the new features: new Finder, new dotMac integration, and the new features that had already been shown in previous keynotes. I have to say that it was a nice presentation, but nothing really surprising. It's nice to see that Leopard is going to have the features that warrant a $129.00 upgrade price, but there's not a lot that's really horribly wrong with Tiger (10.4) right now.
And that's when it hit me... this is very much a consumer update. This is so that the apps look more uniform, that iChat has more features, Finder is easier to use, backups are automatic with Time Machine, stuff like that. This is an update for my Mom. It's got nice things for me, but nothing compared to what it'll be like for my Mom. In that sense, it's going to be really exciting. She'll like it.