Mac OX Leopard
Mar
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I don’t mean to flame or what, but talking about Mac OS next release Mac OS X Leopard, it did impress me after a few sneak peak at Apple website. But something do bother me though, the Spaces one of the new feature in Leopard.
If I can recall back my memory to the time when I was still with Ubuntu Linux, I think I saw something similar before, the Ubuntu Workspaces. Now, who copy who? As usual, I’ll look for who is the first creator.
Well, I can’t exactly says it’s copy though, as Mac OS X Leopard had added some nice eye-candy and innovation onto the feature. Honestly after a while using Mac, I feel that all Mac can offer were eye-candying the consumers. Applications do crash as it’s application, like WinXP. But WinXP goes deeper into blue death screen sometimes and Mac don’t…
March 22nd, 2007 at 10:39 pm
Am i wrong in thinking that this article has overlooked the single biggest point: that OSX is open-source and can therefore use direct implementations of features, let alone the idea behind them. If you want to see “who is the first creator” of the multi-desktop feature, you may want to delve a bit deeper than Ubuntu, unless you want to suggest that everybody (Solaris, Debian, Red-hat etc…) stole it from Ubuntu. As for application crashes, if you have ever written an application for ANYTHING, you will know that building a crash-proof app is not plausible.
March 22nd, 2007 at 11:55 pm
I think people who look at Spaces and say it has been done before are missing the point.
Yes Spaces is nothing new, except on the Mac by Apple (there are alternatives for the Mac) but the fact is that it is easy to access and use and done in a completely Mac way, i.e. the screen rotates like in Fast User Switching.
Leopard has a number of features that are nothing new but then they have never been in the one place or easy to use or access. That’s the difference here. Apple innovates by making great ideas WORK simply, easily, and stable.