One of the highlights during WWDC 2006 was Apple's childish comparisons of Windows Vista with OS X Tiger. Steve Jobs opened his Leopard part of the keynote with a 'top secret' feature which he did not want to reveal because he felt that Microsoft would copy that and release it as part of Vista, which was at RC builds during that time.
Now that Mr. Jobs' WWDC 2007 keynote is over, I can't help wondering which one of the ten features that he highlighted could be the "top secret" one. Is that the new Dock? The new dock could not be top secret because it is a blatant copy from Sun's project, the Looking Glass. See for yourself here.
We have seen enough of Cover Flow, Core Animation, Time Machine etc., in the past. They are no secret. Then what was that top secret feature? Could it be the iChat Theatre? Oh, wait, Microsoft Windows, which Mr. Jobs uses for playing Minesweeper and Solitaire, has had something very similar called Netmeeting for more than a decade now. Then is it the Spaces, Quicklook, 64bit or the Boot Camp? Hmmm.. I don't know. May be the top secret feature is hidden in the rest of the 290 features that are new to Leopard. Only His Highness knows. Can someone help me 'unearth' this top secret feature?
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It is the webclip!
Cover Flow as the Finder is the only feature not revealed at the last WWDC that would be “easily” copied by the Redmond boys before Vista was released. Everything else wouldn’t have been significant enough or easy enough to copy in that limited amount of time. Or, as you suggest, it’s one of the other 290 new features. Now if we can get some developers to rip open the cat and list the 300 features…
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