My initial reaction to the Keynote was fairly positive. While it was a little short on new stuff and heavy on spinning questionably functional features, there were some really funny moments, some suspense and we all had a good time.

Everyone at WWDC is under NDA, so I’m not going to cover anything which hasn’t already been covered, featured on Apple’s site or mentioned in the press. Considering how much attention Apple’s getting these days, there’s quite a lot to talk about.

My thoughts started to sour when I had a chance to use 10.5 and really try out the new features. The whole of Leopard often just feels thrown together in a hap dash sort of way. Bits and pieces of one app are in other apps Todos and RSS in Mail? Coverflow everywhere? Shiny Dock backgrounds? This is called bloat when Microsoft does it.

Rather than try and finish one monster post like my predictions post, I’m going to eke out shorter, more topical posts as I have time. Those posts will all be linked from here.

Posts:

• The $5 billion typo
• Interface