Apple has releasd yet another major upgrade to Mac OS X. Each upgrade becomes less and less interesting. I’m more interested in the GMail IMAP upgrade then anything at all happening with OS X. Hey Google, when does it come to hosted accounts?
The operating system is mattering less and less as web apps are now the primary applications. I think the only reason I will probably upgrade to Leopard is to get the upgrades to Apache 2, PHP 5 and upgrades to Python and Perl. I can clean them out of my ports instead of running two versions of everything.
There are a couple of applications I’m interested in:
Terminal - Tabs, Window Settings, Grouping. If it works well Terminal might just have enough features to not require iTerm.
Instruments intrigues me, the description “Record your application user interface events to easily create an ad-hoc test harness you can replay over and over.” This might actually be really useful, tie it in to Safari and create tests for web apps. Potential or will it have the same cast aside fate as Automator.
There are a lot more things I could completely do without, mostly flash and very little substance:
Apple, for the love of god, let me sync my shit with Exchange. Blackberry has figured it out, just please… come on… please. I think the companies that run Exchange outnumber those that run iCalServer, oh like 165 billion to 1.
Time Machine - sponsored by Seagate. An amazing way to fill up your hard drive, keep track of every change you’ve ever made.
I’m just really not enthused by the upgrade.