I think it's a testament to how easy it is to con the consumer out of evolutionary functionality.
Some of the features are not even well done either. I mean, they murdered the dock. They're using two perspectives there, with confusing reflection, and an odd look when attached to the side of the screen.
The Top Bar's translucency kills usability, it's really horrible. Even with a solid color as a background it turns a shade of light blue.
Where's the uniformity in that? Hell, where's the logic in that?
Even in Windows Vista the Taskbar's translucency is not so exaggerated. It still retains it's overall black hue.
Time Machine is just a visual front end to Previous Versions, a Versioning and Backup system present in Windows since 2003. Where's the innovation?
They slap a retarded User Interface on it and call it a day. Not to mention it requires a second hard drive.
Under Windows Vista the versioning system works flawlessly with the already in place backup. I can backup to an image, a second harddrive, or on a per file basis a'la versioning.
Spaces is no matter how much you play around with words, a virtual desktop implementation.
The only reason spaces does "not depend on the idea of virtual desktops" is because it's off by default.
Once you enable it, it becomes a full part of the user-experience. I'm not sure what point is being made here.
The only innovative thing out of the Apple Camp this release is XCode. Everything else is not innovative, it's existed in one way or another in other systems. The very thing Apple ridiculed Vista for doing, it now does itself.
Not to mention it was supposed to ship *before* Vista.
There's a difference though. Vista moved 88 million copies in less than a year, and Microsoft posted their best quarterly earnings in 9 years. Makes Apple's earnings on all of their collective products seem like nothing.
Looks like karma is coming to bite Steve Jobs in the ass.
