iPhonification Rolls On
In a previous post I was discouraged that the iPod Nano was getting "iPhone-ified". I wrote:
I think Apple is going too far with this iPhone thing. The original was and still is a great product. But then they made the iPad - which still just seems like an iPhone for clowns - and now they've made the Nano into an iPhone for dwarves. I don't understand it.
OSX 10.5 brought DTrace, 64 bit support, Core Animation, and other big things. 10.6 had 0 new features unless you count the 64 bit clean kernel, LLVM/Clang integration, GrandCentral dispatching, and GPU integration, the smaller installation footprint, and tons of optimizations.
But this morning's OSX 10.7 "sneak peek" seems to be turning OSX into yet another really big iPhone with an App Store, "Launchpad" (which reminds me of At Ease), and "Full-screen apps" (which makes me wonder whether they've tried "maximize window"). Maybe this is appealing to the people who found the iPad appealing, and perhaps Apple is saving its technical announcements for the Developers Conference. I get the feeling that with Android stealing share from iOS they're trying to get developers excited about their apps running on yet another kind of iPhone. Hopefully this will be something like Sherlock or Front Row - something that people can use if they want, but won't be necessary if you don't want to mess with it.
I think Apple is going too far with this iPhone thing. The original was and still is a great product. But then they made the iPad - which still just seems like an iPhone for clowns - and now they've made the Nano into an iPhone for dwarves. I don't understand it.
OSX 10.5 brought DTrace, 64 bit support, Core Animation, and other big things. 10.6 had 0 new features unless you count the 64 bit clean kernel, LLVM/Clang integration, GrandCentral dispatching, and GPU integration, the smaller installation footprint, and tons of optimizations.
But this morning's OSX 10.7 "sneak peek" seems to be turning OSX into yet another really big iPhone with an App Store, "Launchpad" (which reminds me of At Ease), and "Full-screen apps" (which makes me wonder whether they've tried "maximize window"). Maybe this is appealing to the people who found the iPad appealing, and perhaps Apple is saving its technical announcements for the Developers Conference. I get the feeling that with Android stealing share from iOS they're trying to get developers excited about their apps running on yet another kind of iPhone. Hopefully this will be something like Sherlock or Front Row - something that people can use if they want, but won't be necessary if you don't want to mess with it.