In the Shallow End
- From: "Dan Johnson" <danieljohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 07:00:14 -0700
The Leopard preview really reinforces the pattern we've
been seeing from Apple for the past view years: They prefer
the shallow end.
The poster child here is "Time Machine", which is simply
an incremental backup program. It's claim to fame is a
whizzy- but terribly overwrought- UI. That UI is very Apple.
But that is the high point of Leopard so far. There are other
minor utilities, some no doubt welcome, bits of cross-app
integration and the like. This all has value but it's terribly,
embarassingly shallow.
It's a bit like Tiger in its emphasis on user-level utility
applets and such- but Tiger went deeper. Spotlight had
some filesystem-level components, where Time Machine
has not. Expose could only be done on a fully composited
desktop; but anybody can do virtual desktops.
Apple may be finding that you can only do so much in
the shallow end, but they may have no choice: getting
their lineup onto x86 today and x86-64 tomorrow may
be soaking up all their serious effort- leaving them
with just... Leopard.
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