WWDC – Nothing special, eh !

Well, another WWDC over and out (is it just me or does that name conjour up images of Hulk Hogan smashing iMacs over someones head in a cage match… okay its just me then :)

well, all things being equal, i cant say i really cared about much that was announced at the WWDC, new macbooks (their just faster, whoop), built in SD card slot (sorry, but i prefer the ExpressCard slot, had some options what i could stick in there, extra firewire, external graphics, Memory card reader, my finger, etc)…

The biggest shout out in my opinion had to goto the official notice of Snow Leopard, looking really nice for a quick release, with its built in exchange support (watch out Windows 7, not even you do that lol, and its your software hehe), and full 64-bit architecture we might finally see a apple kicking into the business workspace for real (cus lets face it, Microsoft entourage is a piece of sh*t… memory sucking sh*t)… and at the price of Snow Leopard, it might even be worth ordering a nice shiney disk instead of the casual download (words of anti-piracy advise for all you nasty pirates out there ;)

and not onto my new pet peeve, iPhone 3G ‘s’… yup, this little puppy is kinda annoying, for all the nice features of the new iPhone, lets throw some consideration towards those poor iPhone 3G users (ME) who have just been told that they can have copy and paste, and a rotating keyboard, but if they want the nice new ‘cool’ feature of voice control (which i used to use quite a bit on my old Sony K800i) then i gotta start looking to the bank balence again…. Apple are inevitably gonna say the same thing they did with the gesture pad on the macBooks, ‘its a hardware based chip doing it’, WHY… if my touchpad understands they im giving it the old two fingers, surley it can understand how im moving them, do it in software you shmuc’s, we got RAM and processor cycles lying around doing squat, your telling me we cant spare a couple of hundered to monitor what im doing with my touchpad…

And the same really goes for this new iPhone voice control, i GUARENTEE that within 3 months of the 3.0 iPhone launch, some developer will of made an iPhone app (available within CYDIA) which will allow iPhone 3G users to do exactly that (the same as my MMS app which is doing exactly what apple cant do, for the mere few pounds it cost me)… id bet money on that, it might not look as pretty, or have some apple monkey on stage talking about it, but it will do the job, it will most likely be free and will prob be much more customizable !

Sorry Apple, I have a MacBook Pro, Mac Pro, iPhone 3G and you still consistantly dissapoint me at times, stop trying to reinvent the wheel, if another business who has been doing this for years (Nokia, Sony, Siemens, etc) have features such as MMS, Copy and Paste, good cameras then why was has it taken you this long to think they might be worth incorporating… Rule of development for revolutionary product [Everone elses good ideas] + [Your brilliant ideas] + [Industry standary technology (3G, MMS, Copy/Paste, Camera, Flash, Long Battery)] = YOUR NEW PRODUCT… Apples way of doing things [Our brilliant ideas] = somewhat lacking product !

Well, thats enough ranting, only to add one last thing, has anyone else noticed that the estimated battery life on the new iPhone 3GS is virtually identical to the old one, whats the bet that this one is gonna be just as crap on battery (aka, JuiceBox requirement) or they actually got it right this time… personally i think with the new higher power processor were all still gonna be looking to get some solar pannels stuck on the roof of our cars…

Over and Out….

P.S taking bets now that the tom tom is more expensive than the phone lol… and i love the ‘enhanced GPS’, that is a classic statement… read between the lines ‘tom tom said our GPS was shit, so they made their own’ lol

UPDATE : Looks like their is already an app out there (http://www.adelavoice.com/voicedialer/) so lets just give a shout out to apple for still not letting backgroud apps do the work they wanna charge us more for !