In the Shallow End

The Leopard preview really reinforces the pattern we've been seeing from Apple for the past view years: They prefer the shallow end.

The poster child here is "Time Machine", which is simply an incremental backup program. It's claim to fame is a whizzy- but terribly overwrought- UI. That UI is very Apple.

But that is the high point of Leopard so far. There are other minor utilities, some no doubt welcome, bits of cross-app integration and the like. This all has value but it's terribly, embarbuttingly shallow.

Apple thrashes Dell on Mac Pro pricing
Here's one for Tommy Lame: Dual Core Intel Xeon 2.66GHz x 2 (4MB shared L2 cache) Dell: $2,866.00 (with a $200 discount for small business) Apple: $2,424.00 Dual Core Intel...

It's a bit like Tiger in its emphasis on user-level utility applets and such- but Tiger went deeper. Spotlight had some filesystem-level components, where Time Machine has not. Expose could only be done on a fully composited desktop; but anybody can do virtual desktops.

Apple may be finding that you can only do so much in the shallow end, but they may have no choice: getting their lineup onto x86 today and x86-64 tomorrow may be soaking up all their serious effort- leaving them with just... Leopard.

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		In the Shallow End The Leopard preview really reinforces the pattern we've been seeing from Apple for the past view years: They prefer the shallow end. The poster child here is "Time Machine", which is simply an incremental backup program. It's claim to fame is a whizzy- but terribly overwrought- UI. That UI is very Apple. But that is the high point of Leopard so far. There are other minor utilities, some no doubt welcome, bits of cross-app integration and the like. This all has value but it's terribly, embarbuttingly shallow. Apple thrashes Dell on Mac Pro pricing Here's one for Tommy Lame: Dual Core Intel Xeon 2.66GHz x 2 (4MB shared L2 cache) Dell: $2,866.00 (with a $200 discount for small business) Apple: $2,424.00 Dual Core Intel... It's a bit like Tiger in its emphasis on user-level utility applets and such- but Tiger went deeper. Spotlight had some filesystem-level components, where Time Machine has not. Expose could only be done on a fully composited desktop; but anybody can do virtual desktops. Apple may be finding that you can only do so much in the shallow end, but they may have no choice: getting their lineup onto x86 today and x86-64 tomorrow may be soaking up all their serious effort- leaving them with just... Leopard. List \| Previous \| Next



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