Ever since WWDC and Steve Job’s keynote, I have read numerous weblog entries commenting on Tiger. I have read accounts from developers who are really excited about the new features but I have also read from users (even power users) who are rather underwhelmed by this new OS vintage. There is so much expectation from Apple that nothing short of a revolution will satisfy users. Sure Tiger doesn’t introduce new UI paradigms but it does provide pretty neat user experience enhancements (Dashboard, Spotlight, etc…). And anyway, Tiger is not (at least immediately) about users: it’s about developers. No, it doesn’t involve a big, sweaty guy dancing out of breath on stage. Still, Tiger, at least at this stage (remember that it’s about a year away) is all about making life easy for developers.

Quoting a recent entry on codepoetry:

Tiger is for developers what Panther was for users. As such, we, the developers, will be the revolution with Tiger.

And that’s why, ultimately, it will be good for users because easier development means more applications and/or more time spent on developing features that would have been just too difficult to implement without the new APIs. So, show some patience and give Apple time to finish the OS (who said they had to show all the goodies now?). More importantly, just wait for the onslaught of independently developed apps that are just going to make people’s life easier. OS X has a great future in front of it.

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