The Zeitgeist

[update! Figures Apple would make me eat my words -- they just released MacOS X 10.5.3 at about 1:30PM ET. Did they do it just so Delicious Library users would get the full benefit of the graphics speedups? I hope so ]

Yay! My favorite library application is now even better — Wil Shipley and his band of amazing OS X developers just released Delicious Library 2.0. With eager anticipation my mouse flew to the download link. I quickly popped it into my Applications folder and double-clicked its silky smooth bar-code scanner icon and … found that Wil & Co. are so far ahead of the rest of us that they released the software from the future where 10.5.3 is generally available:

Okay, truth be told I am an Apple developer too (and have been since the 1979 and for the Macintosh since the ADC formal Apple Developer program started in 1983) — I have the 10.5.3 seeds (I don’t run them on my main machine however).. and everyday users who are going to be downloading Delicious 2.0 in droves certainly don’t have 10.5.3 yet. And, unless Apple is planning on a surprise software update that includes all sorts of stuff I am pretty sure will be part of or at least related to product announcements, they won’t get it until just before or after the start of WWDC on June 9th. Hopefully this won’t generate lots of support headaches for them given that it will, inevitably, confuse the hell out of a lot of users.

This little support faux-pas not withstanding, Delicious2.0 is a work of art. In my development fantasies I hope one day to have the UI design chops of Wil Shipley.

Tags: Delicious Library, OS X