Apple recently announced the upcoming arrival of Mac OS X - Leopard with 300+ features. There is no more shock value of Apple inventing new stuff well ahead of its rival up in Redmond. We are so used to it now. Yet, there is always something small, a nifty feature here and there where some amazing amount of detail has been incorporated that catches my eye. This time it's the iChat application. With video backdrops, photo booth effects, real-time collaboration features like keynote preso sharing, recording of audio AND video chats (so that you can play it on your ipod - on the go, the site says with much humility) - is there anything left for other IM/video clients to aspire to? Apple, please leave something behind for others to dream up too. Its a bad idea to have a monopoly on all the good ideas!

A decade or so back - I was the only nerd in my engineering school (back home in India) to own a Mac. My friends used to ridicule me on all the usual stereotypes that surrounded the Macintosh. However, I had seen the potential in Apple long back...it was just hard to explain clearly back then. Now that Apple is a behemoth and everyone has an ipod or an iphone, that ridicule is long gone. I've also lost my chance and motivation to tell everyone "see I told you so..."

 

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