Disappointing Apple
This week is important to many communities include Apple fans and video gamers; it is the week of WWDC and E3. It's odd that they were hold such large conferences in the same week. The biggest news must be the fact that there's a new Xbox 360!... Yes, a new Xbox 360, not to be confused by the Xbox One to be released in November at $499. Other impacts to the Xbox world: Microsoft points are finally gone, two (old) free games with the Gold membership, and not surprisingly, there will be another Halo game (running a speedy 60 fps). The gaming aspect isn't the most fundamental aspect for consoles for me anymore; I've transformed into a media fiend like many other people out there.
Then there was WWDC, Apple's most important conference of the year. As you have probably heard, they've killed the cats. And it wasn't OS X Sea Lion! That would have been an interesting transition to water creatures but instead they chose OS X Mavericks... Like the announcement of the new OS name, I was disappointed by the rest of the keynote. The audience seemed to by animated by every single feature that Apple announced... Sadly many of which is "catch up" with existing features in other products including file tagging (Who uses them? Especially in Windows), office webtools, command control, notifications, multi-window switching, car integration, personalized radio, mobile browser features (extremely similar to Chrome), automatic application updates, and the slide (anywhere) to unlock. Once again, I'm not impressed by Safari.
But there are some features I did think were great. Apple has always been great with supplying native applications for photos/videos; they've added the categorization feature in iPhoto to iOS (easily one of the best features) and the UI for viewing photos looks much better than any other app I have seen. And the slide to switch between taking video or a photo seems like a tiny things but I can't remember how many times I would have loved that feature (Damn it, it's on video mode). This may be the only aspect where iOS is ahead of Android; though, Google automatically tags photos now (Awesome!).
Apple, where are the widgets?! At least iOS 7 will use Bing for it's Siri searches!
The Mac Pro looks exceptional but I rather spend that much money (assuming it's more expensive than its predecessor) on a down payment on a house.
Disappointment...
I've waited for WWDC to decide if I wanted to buy another Macbook Pro... and it wasn't even part of the keynote, not even a Haswell processor update. Guess I'll be waiting event longer; good thing I've found a fix for my display issue!
