{"id":1300,"date":"2006-08-08T10:39:55","date_gmt":"2006-08-08T14:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/08\/wwdc-2006-keynote\/"},"modified":"2019-05-09T14:46:15","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T18:46:15","slug":"wwdc-2006-keynote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/08\/wwdc-2006-keynote\/","title":{"rendered":"WWDC 2006 Keynote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nMy favorite feature in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macosx\/leopard\/\">Leopard<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macosx\/leopard\/spaces.html\">Spaces<\/a>. Virtual desktops are incredibly useful, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macosx\/features\/expose\/\">Expos&eacute;<\/a>, however useful  in its own right, is not a good substitute for them. I&rsquo;ve been waiting about ten years for this&mdash;sorry, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.codetek.com\">CodeTek<\/a>, but I think it does need to be built-in&mdash;and I guess we can credit Linux for popularizing virtual desktops and making them a standard feature that Apple felt obligated to copy. \n<\/p>\n\n<p>\nAlong these lines, after enticing developers to come to WWDC to see where Mac OS X is going, Jobs tells them that he won&rsquo;t reveal the biggest changes in Leopard because he doesn&rsquo;t want Microsoft to copy them yet. Um, last year he told them to start their photocopiers. A <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/gruber\/209596725\/\">banner<\/a> declares that Redmond has a copycat. These lame jabs may be good marketing (I wouldn&rsquo;t know), but they make me slightly embarrassed to be a Mac developer. Isn&rsquo;t there a better way to make the point that Apple is an innovator? And shouldn&rsquo;t the focus be more on why Mac OS X is a great development platform? &ldquo;Come for the Java, Stay for the Cocoa&rdquo; was a little corny but a better sentiment, I think.\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My favorite feature in Leopard is Spaces. Virtual desktops are incredibly useful, and Expos&eacute;, however useful in its own right, is not a good substitute for them. I&rsquo;ve been waiting about ten years for this&mdash;sorry, CodeTek, but I think it does need to be built-in&mdash;and I guess we can credit Linux for popularizing virtual desktops [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-05-09T18:46:18Z","apple_news_api_id":"998ace19-4430-4b04-9539-8bcd05fc6e0b","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-05-09T18:46:18Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AmYrOGUQwSwSVOYvNBfxuCw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1750,738,30,212,298,1221],"class_list":["post-1300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-event","tag-conference","tag-mac","tag-leopard","tag-namespaces","tag-wwdc"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25196,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions\/25196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}