Well, something I've been waiting for for a while is coming out Friday, and by now, you've probably heard it in the news or on any podcast related to Apple (including some Windows ones as well).
Leopard is upon us indeed, and with it over 300 features Apple is boasting about.
Now the question is, is all the hype worth it in the end?
For the regular user, I'll say there's probably going to be a few that help out, document coverflow and timemachine being 2 of them that will help browse files and even retrieve older versions of anything through a syltish interface.
The main impact is going to be what tools and features developers have now, including optimization for dual core macs, which is what most people have these days, and opengl being faster.
So I predict (as well as many others) that in the future, even if you don't use features in Leopard, you'll have an impact on what applications can do and how much faster and more useful they'll be.
So bottom line, this is a evolutionary update for OSX, not a revolutionary update, which just means it's a upgrade.
Now, onto the 3rd Party apps, what iphone users and itouch users alike have wanted since their gadget has been released.
Of course recently (soon after the iphone was released actually) you could do what is called a jailbreak on your device, or gain root access and add third party applications, and actually unlock the device on the iphone to work with carriers that are decent or at least in your area (I hear ya Canada, it's a shame Rogers is about all you have).
But of course with the udpate of 1.1.1 the third party apps were wiped out along with beginning to brick phones that were unlocked, which is a whole other discussion all together. Anyway, this means that you can't have third party if you want 1.1.1, well, till recently when 1.1.1 was jailbroken through a flaw in the mobile safari with TIFF images that caused the browser to crash and give the user temporary root access.
But not to worry, Apple has answered the call of the users finally and announced that in Febuary of '08 the official iPhone (and hopefully iPod Touch) SDK will be released, but that means that it'll be till May probably before any good type Apps are released.
The Apps will probably be sold through the iTunes store, and hopefully provide a podcast like experience with users being able to give away apps if they want, but hey, if it's useful, or allows me to say, buy Mail and Google Maps for my itouch, then I'll be happy, maybe 1.99 or .99 cents a download just like songs wouldn't be bad considering the price of smartphone software, etc.
Of course recently (soon after the iphone was released actually) you could do what is called a jailbreak on your device, or gain root access and add third party applications, and actually unlock the device on the iphone to work with carriers that are decent or at least in your area (I hear ya Canada, it's a shame Rogers is about all you have).
But of course with the udpate of 1.1.1 the third party apps were wiped out along with beginning to brick phones that were unlocked, which is a whole other discussion all together. Anyway, this means that you can't have third party if you want 1.1.1, well, till recently when 1.1.1 was jailbroken through a flaw in the mobile safari with TIFF images that caused the browser to crash and give the user temporary root access.
But not to worry, Apple has answered the call of the users finally and announced that in Febuary of '08 the official iPhone (and hopefully iPod Touch) SDK will be released, but that means that it'll be till May probably before any good type Apps are released.
The Apps will probably be sold through the iTunes store, and hopefully provide a podcast like experience with users being able to give away apps if they want, but hey, if it's useful, or allows me to say, buy Mail and Google Maps for my itouch, then I'll be happy, maybe 1.99 or .99 cents a download just like songs wouldn't be bad considering the price of smartphone software, etc.
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