Quick recap:
- New Electronic Arts games will be released on the Mac simultaneously with their PC launch.
- New in Leopard (10.5): Dock refinements and, finally, a NEW FINDER!!!!! iTunes inspired, easier file sharing, CoverFlow. Still releasing in October.
- Safari for Windows! Beta for both Windows and Tiger 10.4 available TODAY! Draggable tabs, fast. Distributed to Windows users via iTunes for Windows.
- Developers will be able to write custom applications for the iPhone when it’s released on June 29th using existing web site development techniques (Web 2.0)
- No new hardware.
- No mention of either iLife or iWork.
- Rumor sites seem to have totally blown it.
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It is curious that no mention was made about updating iLife and iWork. Could they be saving that announcement for the next conference - whatever / whenever?? Leopard looks enticing.
That was probably the most surprising aspect for me. I was semi-suspecting there wouldn’t be hardware announcements to avoid stepping on the iPhone launch, but to not even mention iLife or iWork seems odd, especially with the amount of time given to recapping features mentioned last year.
It didn’t feel as polished over-all as I expect from Jobs. Announcing the new Dock and Finder then rehashing 6 or 7 previously announced features didn’t seem right. Either they didn’t put as much work into this keynote as usual (because Jobs is busy with the iPhone release prep) or there were late changes made. The Sun CEO pre-announced Apple’s support for their ZFS file system last week and it’s possible Jobs yanked any mention of it as a sort of punishment, it’s happened before.
My big question is still why the release date is so far off, four more months. If this is a near final beta then one or two months should be sufficient.
The next opportunity for an announcement is probably the October Leopard release. Guess we’ll just have to wait and see.