11.06.2008

Devouring Dust

So, WWDC has been and gone with the fabled keynote. Overall I found it was tedious for the most part. The highlights were basically the iPhone price drop -- which, surprise surprise, no-one rumoured -- and... Oh. That was basically it. MobileMe is just .Mac, renamed with redone web apps. It's cool for the people that like it's features, the new online iDisk seems a big improvement. But it's still pricey in my eyes for what it delivers. A friend of mine, when the iPod was becoming more popular and more of a focus at Apple had a routine that he would complain how Apple paid so much attention to it. Special events, keynotes mostly dedicated to it. Imagine his frustration when this happens all over again with the iPhone.

Anyway. The iPhone price drop is good news and Snow Leopard seems to be as predicted really, except it contains a lot more new developer technology that people anticipated. Things like "Grand Central" and OpenCL are going to improve performance on any recent Macs and even more so in the future as consumer machines move from two physical processor cores to eight logical cores when the quad-core chips with SMT start shipping. Most applications don't make best use of four or more cores at the moment, and even then they're usually professional applications. As we move forward, more multi-threaded support seems crucial.

Next subject, I'm working on the overhaul of Soapsuds. After thinking about it a bit, I'm going to move it to the main domain, out of the subfolder and aim Soapsuds more towards a mix of its current blogging with more regular goodies releases. I'll also be rearranging the site structure to make it easier for me to organize files. The old files that haven't been available in a while (such as Capture) will be moved and I'll be sure the 404 has a list and links to older unsupported downloads.

Hoozawinga! Twopence more and up goes the donkey!