Today was the big day. I was finally able to be at a Steve Jobs keynote. I got up early and started to queue at around 6:45 outside Moscone Center, hoping to get a good seat. After waiting in line for about three hours, I was able to secure a seat in about the center of the room. The first few rows were reserved for VIPs and the press.

The keynote was an interesting experience which can’t be described in words. Steve Jobs and the rest of the speakers gave the audience what they really wanted to hear: lot’s of Windows bashing and finally a really competitive desktop system. The new Leopard features are good, but I have the feeling that the really big thing is missing. Apple will probably introduce a new Finder, a Time Machine .mac service and something big next year in January.

After the Keynote I had lunch (Apple is providing me with a fructose-free vegetarian meal) and I got my Leopard discs. Later today I went to the sessions Mac OS X State of the Union, Development Tools State of the Union and Graphics and Media State of the Union and in the evening to the ADC Opening Reception.

The new developer tools and frameworks are amazing. Interface Builder got a major overhaul and Core Animation seems to be the thing I’ve been waiting for. It contains more or less the same features that I had planed to include in my ICFramework. I’ll probably dump it and start from scratch.