It looks like he's taking a release cycle to just concentrate on making things better and faster under the hood. It also looks like there are a lot of programming libraries coming to help developers easily take advantage of all of the power of a modern machine, like multiple cores and the GPU. If it's easy for developers, it means better, more powerful software for us.
Vista could definitely use that.
BTW, getting into OS X development I've noticed some things in applications. I got a library cataloging program for our obscene amount of books, movies, etc., and while using it I noticed all the cool things it did, and how they only had to leverage the built-in libraries to do them.
“It looks like he’s taking a release cycle to just concentrate on making things better and faster under the hood. It also looks like there are a lot of programming libraries coming to help developers easily take advantage of all of the power of a modern machine, like multiple cores and the GPU. If it’s easy for developers, it means better, more powerful software for us.”
Yes, as a developer this sounds pretty exciting. Writing software to really take advantage of multicore has been tough so far, it’ll be great if Apple can make it easier. Access to the GPU for compute power is a hot area too.
I’m very happy I made the move to Apple. I feel the added value MORE than makes up for any added cost. The great bundled software helps a lot! BTW, like a Mercedes or BMW, an Apple computer commands top resale value.
I agree — Apple has been pretty smart about how they’ve:
a) transitioned off the PPC platforms
b) created a new infrastructure
c) created a new app/programming framework (and how they did something a bit more clueful than use C++ as their default language)
As a guy who used to work on “big software” — I have to say that Apple is making some smart moves here. I’ve only dabbled with Cocoa so far, but I’m quite impressed by what I’ve seen to date.
What program, if I may ask? I've been using Delicious Library, and it's got some pretty good features, including using an iSight to scan UPC codes. But I'd like something that does a better job with books too old to have a UPC (of which I have a lot), especially if it can do ISBN lookups and check against the Library of Congress.