WWDC Keynote
So today was Apple dev day and while I still haven't seen the keynote I did watch the IRC chatter and listen to it over ustream.tv audo-only stream. While most of it seemed to be warmed-over stuff from last year, tho once I see the keynote maybe I'll upgrade that opinion, what I found was interesting was two things that were not mentioned and two that were. First of all why they still have not talked about iLife - zero zip nada - if I were part of the iLife team I would start looking over my shoulder for the same squad that took out poor Brushed Metal. Second, not a mention of ZFS.
All kinds of talk about TimeMachine, a feature that couldn't possibly be thought of without ZFS behind the scenes. You would think that such a huge refactoring of the back-end filesystem would get a mention. Nope One of the things that was mentioned, and is a bombshell IMO, is the .Mac make-over. Wow - they are going to make DAV servers very jealous and also make every IT manager cry with this update. Any mac that is synced to a .Mac account now gets not only it's IP address published but also other searchable information.
Very scary in a break-into-one-mac-get-them-all kinda way. The thing that was talked about Safari 3 and how it's going to be available for Windows.
My first reaction was WTF -- I mean like we need another browser for windows. Then I started thinking about all of the HTML/CSS/javascript bugs on the Mac version of Safari ... yikes. The only hope is that this will force them to fix some of these issues as now they expect all of the ravenous iPhone devs to use this.
I wonder if they think this will stop devs from asking for a more core SDK. Please pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.