It’s how they appear and disappear from the desktop that’s the thing, much as the Expose feature of the current Panther interface reveals open windows. However, other features Jobs showed were of less import to creative workflows, although of interest to most users, such as: the Seachlight local search technology multi-person video conferencing support for RSS news feeds and Dashboard, a new interface to small utility applications (see Figure 1).įigure 1: There’s really not much interesting about these little applications called Widgets in Tiger. So we will be receiving a bonus 10 extra features this time around.) ![]() (A thought: Could there be a threshold for features in an Apple OS update, or perhaps a “magic” number? I recall that Jobs in 2003 declared there were 140 new improvements in the current “Panther” version. Some of the new features he demonstrated apply directly to content creation workflows: greater support for 64-bit computing, improvements to OS X’s graphics engine beefier support for graphics coprocessors a new video codec and a new scripting architecture called Automator, code-named Pipeline. Due about a year from now, the update will build on the graphics-savvy technology base found in the current version of the operating system.įrom the keynote stage, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said the update will offer 150 new features. This was the case earlier this summer, when at its annual developer conference Apple offered a peek at Mac OS X 10.4, given the “Tiger” name. The resulting message, however, can be less-than focused, or the back-story may be needed for proper interpretation. Instead, vendors such as Apple Computer or Microsoft often put much of their communication efforts for content-creation customers into developer conferences. This has been the case for a number of years. This is a somewhat miserable state of affairs since vendors really have a story to tell content creators with the arrival of affordable 64-bit desktop machines and the slowly rising tide of operating systems and applications that can take advantage of the increased memory and processing power.įor example, no computer system vendor has taken a booth at the annual Seybold San Francisco expo this week (except for Hewlett-Packard and its booth is for printers and scanners). Nowadays, capturing the pulse of the market from the show floor is more difficult as vendors target the needs of commodity products, business computing, or the consumer segment instead of graphics pros. ![]() In bygone days, system hardware and software vendors would take advantage of trade shows for content creation professionals to pitch the relative merits of their respective platforms: Mac, Windows, whatever.
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