How hard is it to make Mail + Calendar + Address Book as functional as Entourage. I mean, COME ON!!! It’s an embarrassment!

@Jonathan

“Most of us have worked out a back-up system anyway, so it seems kind of obsolete.”

Actually, most people do not backup, as was pointed out during the keynote. I think Time Machine will come in handy for many average consumers.

As far as the todos within Mail…I use Entourage for the simple fact that it allows me to instantly create a todo from an email. That’s one of the features of Outlook that I absolutely must have since a lot of my action items derive from an email.

man, i haven’t seen anything like spaces since fvwm!

I’m curious why so many are going off on the Finder now, disappointed that any changes/improvements to it were not shown off today. I’m quite pleased with the state it’s currently in.

However, since it seems that there were no apparent changes shown today in it, that means it is likely going to get a huge facelift in Leopard.

Also, regarding Time Machine… I was really impressed on all fronts. It looks like a super-easy backup method for novices yet still has a lot of power to it. The address book demo on the website really impressed me as there have been several times when I was sure I had an address and found out I no longer did.

If there were two features I’d liked to have seen today it would have been a replacement of the Tiger-style Mail interface and Steve using Spotlight to find a document by it’s filename. I would have stood up and cheered for that one.

WWDC is for developers, it is hard to understand why many were expecting ipods and MacTablets to go.

Time Machine on the other side is for consumers, not tor sysadmins who will keep digging their specialized backup apps.

The 64bit foundation addresses all who need to run scientific apps but also the ability to run terabytes of storage without middleware. This alone is an impressive achievement which Vista can not anymore deliver and a solid element in Apple adverts for years.

All in all some of the dizzling features dripping into iChat, Mail, iCal etc show an impressive degree of integration and ability to listen to user’s request, I believe this is the stuff that is going to confuse Microsoft in this last few months of refinement.

I’m not sure how you feel the new iChat is inspired by Adium. Tabbed chatting isn’t exactly an Adium-only feature. I think iChat SHOULD HAVE been inspired by Adium, and support more protocols, logging and more customization features.

Best new feature we’ll be looking forward to in our office is actually Wiki Server. Finally we can ditch MediaWiki and wiki markup!! Yah!

Someone needs to steal the bong away from the Time Machine UI designers, for the interface is triiiiiiipy. And not in a good way. From the cosmos backdrop to the perspective glass buttons, it just looks silly. IMO, the team should focus their efforts on the timeline at the right edge. Could be much classier looking.

I’m not sure if I understood this right… But if there’s a feature that let’s my wife see - AND edit - my iCal schedule. And the opposite…

…then that is worth an upgrade alone.

I like Time Machine. It looked way cool, and I’m sure it will be used a lot. I have more than once replaced the original folder with the empty copy. Doh.

I admin six editing stations (FCP and ProTools) and I sure would use Time Machine in that professional enviroment. Just add an extra internal drive for each G5/Mac Pro, and let Time Machine backup to that. Excellent solution.

I agree with Anthony: Ditching Mediawiki on our work server will be a joy. What a nightmare to install…

Bigggest WOW: Core Animation. As a video editor, I can think of a million uses for that.

I’m sure Apple will present bigger and better iPod nanos, more iTunes content (read: movies) and Mac mini with a tv-tuner well in time before christmas.

@Daniel: “Time Machine seemed very nifty and welcome. This hit me as one of those “Duh, why don’t more OSes have this?” features”

Windows does have it. It’s just another one of their myriad features that no one knows about. Man, I sometimes wonder if the unknown functionality of Windows and the marketing machine of Apple could get together… we might finally know what Windows can REALLY do besides “get viruses”.

Anyone else find the ‘PC Guy’ video before the keynote to be overly arrogant? I get the humor, just didn’t find it all that funny. Just me?