One feature that would have been worth mentioning in this article is resolution independence. The iPhone has it and I think it was previously mentioned. On the iPhone, you can zoom in and out and the text is always smooth. The text is scaled smoothly to whatever size you want on the output. On Leopard, there is no equivalent feature. I was hoping the Universal Access zoom would allow smooth text (not an anti-aliased version of the output bitmap).

More importantly, I was hoping for a way to scale everything to a larger version so I could use an HD TV as a monitor. As it is, that resolution at a comfortable distance would render all text illegible, but scaling everything up would allow very crisp text at a reasonable distance. Granted, there would be less screen real estate, but that will always be the tradeoff.

I should have also mentioned spring loaded Dock folders, which once you figure out you’ll never know how you did without. Particularly awesome for drag and drop, and it works with every app. Basically, you drag to a Dock icon, then hit spacebar to switch to that app. Joy.

@avocade – Apple hasn’t published numbers for the Apple TV, but Scott Woolley of Forbes gave his estimate of 250,000 (other pundits suggested sales of 2 million this year, which is likely very high). Woolley was trying to spin the number as a failure.

Scott Woolley Attacks Apple TV in Forbes, Gets the Facts Wrong

Reader Timothy Bandy pointed out that TiVo subscriptions were only up 136,000 over last year, indicating that “if Apple sold 250,000 Apple TVs, it’s already doubled the amount of new customers Tivo made last year; or to put it another way, they already have 1/7th of Tivos’ customer base without hardly trying. And as you pointed out, I doubt they’ve lost several million bucks in the process.”

The important concept is that Apple isn’t losing money by the tens of millions (or billions, in the case of Microsoft) in the difficult business of TV media center products. That leaves flacks to hold up the Apple TV against the success of the iPhone and iPod, and call it a “failure” in comparison. In reality, the Apple TV is tagging along behind the successful iTunes, meaning Apple is selling it without really trying. It has also bundled a “virtual Apple TV” into Leopard as Front Row.

Forbes Prints Insanely Self Serving Attack on iTunes by MediaNet CEO Alan McGlade

I’d rather have said…
Those numbers alone do not measure success or desire.

I think Daniel’s point (correct me if I’m a dummy) is that it’s a part of a profitable and successful business for Apple. A few hundred thousand Apple TV sales is break even to small profit for Apple while 12 million XBox 360’s is BILLIONS of dollars in losses for Microsoft. The shills Daniel smacks around hide behind unit sales and market share. Those numbers do not measure success or desire.

But you know what, the really funny thing is that what he says and does fits PERFECTLY with how Microsoft behaves.

Its as if there is some weird brain disease out there that scientists have yet to discover.

Curiously
John