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I watched the keynote last night and while the new OS X still isn't revolutionary, I am digging the new features. October is too far off!

As for the iPhone "SDK," what understood from the keynote is that all the third-party "applications" HAVE to be run in Safari. The way he accessed that example application was through Safari. Maybe they will allow you to create shortcut icons on the "desktop" that would launch Safari to a specific app.

I also wonder if you will be able to download some of the applications (ones that don't require internet access) so you can use them on your phone even if you're not connected to the internet.

As for how you would access the iPhone features through the "SDK," I am guessing it will be similar to the DOM interface when programming for browsers.

Grr.. I cant stand how this person who wrote this articke thinks they could ever call themselves a journalist. First of all Resolution Independence and ZFS are implemented, that was previously released information, hence why it wasnt said at the keynote for the 500th time. Duh! get your info straight Anthony Fiti!

Oh, and see, the changes that I thought they were making seemed like enough to call it a new OS for the first time since. . .10.4. That was BS.

But x86, x86-64, and PPC builds, new file format, resolution independence, (something I was really pissed that wasn't a part of Longhorn) a new Finder, and integrated Boot Camp: that's well more than janking Quicksilver and calling it Spotlight.

Widgets do not an operating system make.

Rob,

Several other websites (Ars Technica for one) have confirmed that both features you mentioned are not part of 10.5.

-Anthony

lol, Rob... Neither of those were mentioned in the keynote... but thanks for jumping to conclusions anyway.

that keynote was so boring, omfg, almsot as bad as the ones at macworld, but then again it may have something to do with the fact that i'm 16

I didn't find it that boring. I thought it was fine, except the "SDK" and Safari announcements didn't really thrill me. "One more thing..." *me excited* "Safari on Windows" *uhhhh.... ok.... next*

And Steve was quite repetitive with the Leopard presentation. First, explain what's new, show slides of what's new, then demo what's new, and finally summarize what's new. Rinse and repeat... nine times. He could have just explained it while demoing it and move on to the next feature, keeping people with ADD and ADHD from fidgeting as much.

Seriously... why did he spend so much time on the new desktop? Yeah, it looks great and all, but it was kind of weird, spending so much time taking about the transparent menu bar and the reflective angled dock. Yeah, I like it, but I already got it when you showed the first slide... no need to mention it three more times and say "isn't this cool?" It's you're friggin product, of course you're going to say it's cool...

Mneh... it wasn't that bad... I'm just in a ranting mood.

Huh, no ZFS? That was, like, the interesting bit. I mean, we're at the point where damn near every part of the machines has had exponentially greater bandwidth growth compared to hard drives. The only thing left is to start using clever drive configurations (Vista's ReadyBoost might reap crap benefits but it's a freaking start) and more importantly, better file formats.

I think I have money on WinFS getting included with Vista SP1, so Good Idea from Plan Nine don't fail me now.

I agree with Brian that conflating external apps with something you run locally through a browser is pretty shitty. "SDK" is REALLY stretching it. And Anthony, I'm glad you'll be buying an iPhone, because I won't... at least not yet. But I'd love to hear what you think of yours :)