Comments on: Help-Key: What You’ll Use in Leopard

By: billy

billy — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 19:53:59 +0000

i don’t understand why EITHER company adopted that dumb-ass grass photo!!

By: short elvis

short elvis — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 06:41:30 +0000

I agree that Apple’s finder is at the basic view is finally taking the no nonsense approach from Windows, as far as thumbnails and previewing options. I still say that a desktop background and some subtle translucency effects don’t add up to Leopard being a Vista knockoff. Stacks and Quick look are going to be amazing upgrades to efficiency and workflow options, which Vista doesn’t have. In fact, that’s the key to Apple’s success, it just flows better overall (once you discover expose and F11). Certain parts of the Finder were lacking and now there fixed, Coverflow combined with the simpler networking options, toss in the simplistic .Mac remote desktop and the uber simple Time Machine, it’s just brilliant in it’s execution. Anyone who can watch the keynote and not come away saying, “damn, that’s just cool” is seriously delusional. Vista has a cool color set, but just doesn’t “get it.” Anyway, I’d rather figure out a solution to poverty or world peace, but instead, I’ll just argue the mundane points of who makes a better operating system…

By: Avatar

Avatar — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:54:43 +0000

1.-you are taking it way to literal.. i am obviously resuming it. i could give you details on the why and when of each feature.
2.-check any video of the original longhorn public demo in 2003 (and there was actually a closed one even before the public one) and tell me you don`t see now familiar OS X features?
3.-if it was not a big deal to apple to be at par in eye candy with vista ultimate, why apple ditched aqua for the new illuminous at the very last minute when they realized it would not at par with aero?
4.-i don`t know if you noted how one of the TOP 10 key features is 3 ways of running the windows OS and windows apps..just from bootcamp they report 2.5 million downloads.. and it is known that something like 10% of people with intel macs are running exclusively windows in them.. with the new native bootcamp that share could get higher… so…then?

what i mean here is that MS does copy some things from apple, but apple also copies from Microsoft and now MS finally has a product with things that managed to ship before apple unlike what happened with the longhorn original configuration that never shipped..

By: short elvis

short elvis — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 06:13:51 +0000

The dock in OSX is and has already been translucent for years. Just because they chose a grass desktop picture doesn’t make it Vista. Coverflow is Coverflow, the “3d rolodex” in Vista is a feature is more akin to a butchered version of Expose, which is actually effective (not just eye candy). Sorry, Vista is just ok IMHO, Leopard actually is shaping up to be an efficient and FUN system to use, which is where Mac will always beat M$. It’s not where you are, it’s how you got there…

By: Avatar

Avatar — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 02:15:23 +0000

@Kevin

that is the greates irony, people don´t know that apple cpied lot of longhorn demo, and they did it again in a more frontal way with leopard…

time machine= shadow copy or previous versions
translucent dock = translucent windows
OS X theme= Vista Theme
Spaces= desktops
quick view= live view
Coverflow = 3d rolodex + WMP 11

etc…. so.. what i can say?..

By: Kevin Landers

Kevin Landers — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:26:58 +0000

Apple has copied the green grass desktop directly from Microsoft Vista. I guess copiers are the best form of flattery!