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Steve Jobs, WWDC, Leopard and Zune |
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Written by Kostas Tzounopoulos
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Monday, 11 June 2007 |
Today it was Steve Jobs and WWDC 2007 day, showing the new Mac OS X Leopard and some iPhone goodies. We can see that Apple's CEO can no longer organize a presentation without talking about Zune at some point. This time it was John Hodgman's turn (the PC guy from the Mac ads) to mention it, while pretending to be Steve Jobs...
"Hello everyone, I'm Steve Jobs." Laughs. "I've got some big news this year, I want the whole world to hear it. I quit. Yes, that's right, I'm resigning effective immediately, and shutting down all of Apple." Huge laughs. "I didn't have a choice, Vista is performing so well -- it sold tens of dozens of copies. Leopard was going to get lost in all that Wow. And I've got my iPod killer -- a brown Zune. It's time for Apple to wave the white flag. Don't shed tears, just take those big brains out of the Mascarpone center.
This mean extra work for us covering Zune news, to watch what Steve Jobs has to say about it. Anyway I believe we can do it :) On more interesting parts of the conference Jobs presented the new features of the Leopard, like the new Finder, some .Mac integration for backups and virtual office connectivity among a user's Macs, iChat for online chatting and video streaming etc. Apple is now clear that wants Safari to become the leading browser. Today it was announced a beta both for Windows XP and Vista.
The iPhone as Jobs said has also the full Safari engine and this will enable it to run normal web application. And by normal he means Web 2.0 and AJAX apps. And more than that, these apps will be able to use some of the iPhone's native services like phone calls and e-mail. You can read more on the live coverage of Engadget. Also check the new Leopard-looking Apple website .
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Last Updated ( Monday, 11 June 2007 )
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