Tiger update
After using Tiger for the past few weeks I have some new observations.
Dashboard while cool, is not going to be a necessary part of life with OSX. It is still very easy to develop for, and many have created some great widgets. Some of these are useful, but will not change your life the same way Expose does.
Spotlight is a great search tool, but still too slow to be an application launcher like Quicksilver is.
Correction. CoreData is not the cause of the binary plist files. The binary plist format has been around since 10.2, but has not been the default until now. It is easy to convert files between formats using plutil.
Ultimately the best improvements are still under the hood IMHO. launchd is a great replacement for rc, SystemStarter, cron, inetd, etc. Hopefully in the near future more daemons/jobs will be migrated to this new system and leave the bloated crappy SystemStarter in the dust.
Posted: May 17th, 2005.
Tags: Fun, Mac