One of the biggest take-aways from Monday's Apple developer conference was the Mac maker's progress in unifying its user interface across multiple product lines, according to American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu.
The horizontal integration, which remains a work-in-progress, will enable users who are familiar with one Apple product to learn another relatively quickly, Wu told clients in a research note Tuesday morning.
Wow! This is amazing! Could it be that ... I don't know, I'm kind of scared to suggest it....Apple might be reading their own UI guidelines??? What a concept, making their software look the same. "Its an amazing idea, and one we all think will bring Apple into the 90's"
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Originally Posted by AISI
I think Apple has sold ~7.5-8 million Intel Macs as of June 2007, and Boot Camp has been downloaded over 2.5 million times. About one-third of the Intel Mac user-base has downloaded the beta, and some of these guys are toying with Parallels or VMWare. And about half of the customers purchasing Macs in the United States are PC switchers/adders. There is a fair amount of interest in running Windows on Intel-based Macs.
Sorry, but looking at downloads is horrible. Apple reports total downloads. They don't siphon off repeat downloaders. So if you got it at work, tossed it by mistake, and got it again at home, then that's 2. Plus there's been at least three, if not more, versions of the software posted. So right there you'd really think you'd have to cut the count in half, if not by two-thirds.
And then this is just people who've downloaded that. How many tried it and tossed it as being a pain? Or it wouldn't install (took me several tries to get it to work right)?
Calm down folks. People getting all in a tizzy over whether it was 'ten secret features' or just 'secret features'. It doesn't matter if it was just "a secret feature". After a year after the hype (which it was, otherwise why mention it at all, but rather just say "And some other stuff we're working on"), the results were fairly less then amazing.
Oooh, coverflow for finder! Wow, and will it be as slow to load images like Coverflow is on my G5 tower?
Quickview? Need more information (I don't trust promises that make it sound like they'll magically show you the content of basically every file, without firing up an app - how exactly are they reading these files? Through a spotlight type parser?)
Stacks? Wow, more eye-candy. "Watch those stacks go up and down! Its like putting a folder in your dock, but different!"
Download folder? Wow, who'd a thunk up such a brilliant concept?
New sidebar? Wow, who'd a guess apple would change that? They only monkey with the windows on a daily basis. Maybe they'd be nice enough to give me back my toolbar on top of system preferences, so I can get to my most-used prefs quicker. You know, like the old days, before you had to type in words to get there.
You know what would have driven the place insane with excitement. If Jobs came out, and said "The secret features we have are this: We've fixed all those underlying problems you've complained about with the finder! No more beachballs when a server is diconnected! Folders refresh in real-time!! "Calculate all sizes" setting stays set! You can actually set up a default folder view for all folders, and we'll remember it! The finder/folder grid will no longer put each icon in its own zip code!! You can actually connect to an FTP server and upload to it! We've fixed Spotlight so searching for files will actually find them! And you can even turn it off if you want!"
As it is, that's all probably just a pipe dream. I think I have a better chance getting laid this year then any of that happening.
You know what would have driven the place insane with excitement. If Jobs came out, and said "The secret features we have are this: We've fixed all those underlying problems you've complained about with the finder! No more beachballs when a server is diconnected! Folders refresh in real-time!! "Calculate all sizes" setting stays set! You can actually set up a default folder view for all folders, and we'll remember it! The finder/folder grid will no longer put each icon in its own zip code!! You can actually connect to an FTP server and upload to it! We've fixed Spotlight so searching for files will actually find them! And you can even turn it off if you want!"
As it is, that's all probably just a pipe dream. I think I have a better chance getting laid this year then any of that happening.
I guess that's two pipe dreams this year
One of your pipe dreams is already being fulfilled, but don't get to excited, its definitely not you getting laid.
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Originally Posted by guy from mac rumors
The new finder is absolutely the best part. How many years have we wanted a cocoa finder? It's HERE!!!!! Browsing network shares is no longer met with delays, it's using the fast Unix finally. I can try to mount 10 shares without every seeing a cursor. Proper multi-threaded support. No more pauses when clicking on the menubar or anything else. Apps keep chugging along. No more beachball so far. It's the perfect OS for productivity. No crazy changes, just refinement to the extreme.
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One of the biggest take-aways from Monday's Apple developer conference was the Mac maker's progress in unifying its user interface across multiple product lines, according to American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu.
The horizontal integration, which remains a work-in-progress, will enable users who are familiar with one Apple product to learn another relatively quickly, Wu told clients in a research note Tuesday morning.
Wow! This is amazing! Could it be that ... I don't know, I'm kind of scared to suggest it....Apple might be reading their own UI guidelines??? What a concept, making their software look the same. "Its an amazing idea, and one we all think will bring Apple into the 90's"
I think Apple has sold ~7.5-8 million Intel Macs as of June 2007, and Boot Camp has been downloaded over 2.5 million times. About one-third of the Intel Mac user-base has downloaded the beta, and some of these guys are toying with Parallels or VMWare. And about half of the customers purchasing Macs in the United States are PC switchers/adders. There is a fair amount of interest in running Windows on Intel-based Macs.
Sorry, but looking at downloads is horrible. Apple reports total downloads. They don't siphon off repeat downloaders. So if you got it at work, tossed it by mistake, and got it again at home, then that's 2. Plus there's been at least three, if not more, versions of the software posted. So right there you'd really think you'd have to cut the count in half, if not by two-thirds.
And then this is just people who've downloaded that. How many tried it and tossed it as being a pain? Or it wouldn't install (took me several tries to get it to work right)?
Oooh, coverflow for finder! Wow, and will it be as slow to load images like Coverflow is on my G5 tower?
Quickview? Need more information (I don't trust promises that make it sound like they'll magically show you the content of basically every file, without firing up an app - how exactly are they reading these files? Through a spotlight type parser?)
Stacks? Wow, more eye-candy. "Watch those stacks go up and down! Its like putting a folder in your dock, but different!"
Download folder? Wow, who'd a thunk up such a brilliant concept?
New sidebar? Wow, who'd a guess apple would change that? They only monkey with the windows on a daily basis. Maybe they'd be nice enough to give me back my toolbar on top of system preferences, so I can get to my most-used prefs quicker. You know, like the old days, before you had to type in words to get there.
You know what would have driven the place insane with excitement. If Jobs came out, and said "The secret features we have are this: We've fixed all those underlying problems you've complained about with the finder! No more beachballs when a server is diconnected! Folders refresh in real-time!! "Calculate all sizes" setting stays set! You can actually set up a default folder view for all folders, and we'll remember it! The finder/folder grid will no longer put each icon in its own zip code!! You can actually connect to an FTP server and upload to it! We've fixed Spotlight so searching for files will actually find them! And you can even turn it off if you want!"
As it is, that's all probably just a pipe dream. I think I have a better chance getting laid this year then any of that happening.
I guess that's two pipe dreams this year
You know what would have driven the place insane with excitement. If Jobs came out, and said "The secret features we have are this: We've fixed all those underlying problems you've complained about with the finder! No more beachballs when a server is diconnected! Folders refresh in real-time!! "Calculate all sizes" setting stays set! You can actually set up a default folder view for all folders, and we'll remember it! The finder/folder grid will no longer put each icon in its own zip code!! You can actually connect to an FTP server and upload to it! We've fixed Spotlight so searching for files will actually find them! And you can even turn it off if you want!"
As it is, that's all probably just a pipe dream. I think I have a better chance getting laid this year then any of that happening.
I guess that's two pipe dreams this year
One of your pipe dreams is already being fulfilled, but don't get to excited, its definitely not you getting laid.
The new finder is absolutely the best part. How many years have we wanted a cocoa finder? It's HERE!!!!! Browsing network shares is no longer met with delays, it's using the fast Unix finally. I can try to mount 10 shares without every seeing a cursor. Proper multi-threaded support. No more pauses when clicking on the menubar or anything else. Apps keep chugging along. No more beachball so far. It's the perfect OS for productivity. No crazy changes, just refinement to the extreme.