The WWDC keynote was a bit of a snoozefest, but there were a couple of interesting announcements....
iPhone 3G
There were no real surprises with the iPhone announcement other than the price and the fact that Apple hasn't included a better camera. It is too bad that Apple is getting rid of iTunes activation, it was one of the more innovative features of the phone. It sounds like iPhones will now have to be activated the old fashioned way (in the store). Perhaps it was just too hard to work with all of the different carriers to make online activation work. I'll wait a couple of weeks before calling our Rogers rep to figure out how I can get one that works with our business plan.
Snow Leopard
Yes! More software companies should focus on performance and stability. I haven't had many problems with Leopard, but many people have found it to be the buggiest release of OS X to date. From what I can tell the only new feature is that Mail, Address Book and iCal will natively support Exchange 2007. Apple seems to be courting enterprises more and more, which is great. Perhaps this announcement will
give the Entourage team a big kick in the ass to turn Entourage into the
best Exchange client on any platform, and not just a medocre version of
Outlook.
MobileMe
The other big announcement of the day was MobileMe, which impressed me more than I thought it would (based on the rumours). Some thoughts:
- The messaging is simple and clear — "Exchange for the rest of us". This should have been released a year ago from Redmond as Windows Live!
- The web applications look well designed, simple and elegant
- Hopefully Apple has sorted out all of the reliability problems that have plagued .Mac
- Where is the ability to use your own domain name with the service? When I stopped using .Mac I decided to get my own domain and use it for everything. I never want to have to change my personal email address again
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