For me, there’s one thing missing when it comes to the conceptual design behind Apple’s iOS. That for devices which are clearly made for media consumption (although certainly not exclusively), there’s still no simple way of actually getting the media onto the device.

Say I have a tube map in PDF format for example. Shouldn’t I just be able to easily copy over this file from my computer? It bugs me that there’s still no easily accessible file system structure in the OS. I’m not saying I need root access, I just want to be able to save stuff. It’s equally (if not more) frustrating that you can’t save a file (for example a video) from Mobile Safari straight to the device.

I’m one of the hundred of thousands who tuned in to the WWDC keynote and watched Steve Jobs once again bathe in the spotlight and smile in that way that only Steve can. It’s a smile that seems to say “Yes, I know this is the shit.”

When I first saw the Gizmodo images that circulated, I didn’t feel that instant connection that I normally do when Apple reveals new products. It looked alright, I remember thinking, but it wasn’t what I was used to. It wasn’t that kind of design when you just want to press your tongue against the screen because it looks so damn good. In short, it just didn’t feel like Apple. It has started to grow on me now though, I must say. People are talking about unparalleled build quality, as John Gruber mentions in his post iPhone 4 Impressions and Observations. Pondering, I find it strange that Apple seems to be the only company who really seem to inherently believe in these sorts of things.

The camera on the new model feels like a step in the right direction, and I really hope someone in the office rush to buy it new so I can play with it and see the picture quality. The camera in a mobile has always been something I liked.

If you have no idea what I’m talking about, watch the ever enthusiastic, glossy promo video.

Oh, and what about Forstall’s eyes? Not so crazy anymore, right! I bet some PR person at Apple told him to tone his excitement down a notch. Too bad, I liked his enthusiasm — even though they were a really out there.

Some video clips from Steve Jobs at the D8 conference.

Skip the modernistic stuff and go with a bit of old school class instead.

Stumbled across this video on YouTube. I’ve had the idea of doing something like this myself (for example a video showing Jobs’ saying ‘phenomenal’ all the time).

Saw this portrait of Steve Jobs over at Gizmodo of all places. It’s made using old Macintosh typefaces. Pretty sweet.

Now you can make any web URL into an own Mac OS X application on your desktop using Fluid.

The thing with having a Mac, at least to me, is the feeling it gives me. The genuinely well-thought out order of things. Everything just feels right. That’s why it bugs me when applications are for example ported and have an altered GUI (that is inferior to the Mac OS’s own). There are both good and bad examples of this. Mostly bad, though. Take, for instance, Mozilla Firefox. It looks alright by most standards, but there’s something there. There’s something that is off. Something that makes Safari feel like more of a Mac browser than Firefox. Let’s not even get into Opera. Mozilla Thunderbird is another example of a good idea, but with bad execution.

A good example would be Panic’s Coda application. It’s got a very good-looking, “Mac OS X”-feeling to it, even if it has been designed in a way that is not specific to Apple’s operating system. What it seems to boil down to, at least for me, is that it doesn’t matter that much if the user interface is different, as long as it’s good different, meaning the interface has been designed in an attractive and well-thought manner.

Therefore, it’s nice to see that something will happen to an app like Opera.