Here I was just sitting here listening to the audio stream with the live update from macrumors.com running as well. First the game announcement, that was pretty cool and happy to see that. Everyone that is upset about them using a ‘wrapping’ technology needs to get over it. There was no lie by anyone. I never heard native code, all that was announce by EA is they were bringing those games to the Mac and they did. Now performance and stability is in question but you have to wait and see for that.

It’s always fantastic to see Carmack. The demo looked and sounded great and I never doubt the ability of Id software.

Now the features of leopard Steve showed off. I really like the ‘new’ desktop and stacks but it does look like Vista a bit. I am not saying they copied but there is not a big difference anymore. We all wanted a new Finder, we got one… not sure if it is what we wanted though. It looks more of a cosmetic change and not what people wanted by putting some features found in Path Finder. Coverflow is nice with the preview feature but it seems the Finder didn’t get much more in functionality like I hoped. Quicklook looked pretty nice and I look forward to playing around with that.

Pretty much everything else that was shown was just stuff that was shown last time.

I knew this was going to be mostly about Leopard but some of these super top secret features left a lot to be desired. When you make a statement like Jobs did at the last keynote where there are super top-secret features, your mind begins to wonder. So is this really the media monster that has been created by us or is Apple not nearly as innovative as they used to be. One more choice… is the iPhone causing Apple to lose focus on OS X for the Mac?

Safari for Windows is nice but I am not a fan of Safari for the Mac. I did try it for Windows and found it had the same issues I don’t like on the Mac side. Now the real reason Safari is on Windows isn’t for the users, it is for the developers who want to create iPhone apps.

My problem with this thing is there were no desktop upgrades. They didn’t have to be in the keynote. They could have been in the store refresh or the day after. Maybe this week. With EA announcing games for OS X the hardware needs to be kicked up some. If any companies are going to be serious about putting games on the Mac then Apple needs to get serious about the video cards it offers. This two year old graphics hardware is not going to cut it. That is my major problem so far with Apple. I have been waiting for a Mac Pro refresh to get one. They are almost a year old. Adding a BTO option for the Octo-CPU doesn’t count as a refresh.

Anyway, just some of my thoughts about WWDC.