Leopard Mail, “like Entourage (but better)”
UPDATE: Be careful — April Fool’s joke ahead. Completely sucked me in, being reposted at a later date from an original thread on MacNN 
. Don’t let it get you…
According to a post on the osx86project forum by someone who claims to be “in the know”, Leopard Mail will be quite a different beast:
Mail, Address Book, iCal, iSight, and iChat will become one integrated application, much like Entourage (but better). Included is a customizable Auto Responder and voice activated dialing via numbers or Address Book names. You will be able to automatically send email & initiate iSight meetings, etc. that are linked/pegged to specific calendar events.
Never have I so fervently hoped a rumour wrong.
The information comes as part of a long list of features that the poster suggests will be part of OS 10.5.
He says “don’t quote me”, so you had better not.
Or is it just a troll? See Scott Morrison’s remarks in the comments.
Tags: 10.5, Address Book, Apple Mail, entourage, iCal, iChat, Leopard, mail.app, nightmareRelated posts
April 5th, 2006 at 10:45 am
I am choking on the grain of salt that I am chewing down with this.
Several things.
1. This goes against the recent history of application development. Apple has always worked with the ‘unix’ philosophy of smaller apps that each do one thing well, which communicate, not megalithic apps that try to do all things. — There would be no need to marry all these functions into one app — just need to build better ties between.
1a. Also many apps currently make use of the addressbook and addressbook API. This would potentially break that.
2. the poster is plain and simply not credible. — he/she/it writes about virtualization — which perhaps is possible but then gives specs for the virtualization that would go beyond almost all computers shipping. 150GB HD (for what ?!? Operating systems don’t require that much room - even with lots of swap space) 2 GB + memory (which is the top end of what any 32 bit intel processor can handle. Basically it would mean that they would be developing functionality that only the most maxed out recent macs could use — (How many macbook pros are shipping with 150 GB harddrives and 2 GB of memory)
3. Poster, who apparently is SO in the know about Leopard, can’t seem to get the month of WWDC correct.
Obviously, the poster is a troll, trying to bait a bunch of us Mac users with at best speculative information.
Move along, nothing to see here.
Scott
[HW - Scott Morrison is the developer of MailTags and Mail Act-on
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April 5th, 2006 at 10:49 am
This would be perfect for our business clients — they’ve been dying for collaboration, if done right, it would be perfectly what they need.
April 5th, 2006 at 12:46 pm
I like the idea of this too. Apple Mail Pro :)
April 5th, 2006 at 2:20 pm
Sounds awful. What a bloated, unwieldy, Microsoft-esque monster this would be. This is precisely what I dumped my purchased copy of Entourage to get away from.
April 5th, 2006 at 2:43 pm
It would be bloated if they designed it that way — it can turn into the iTunes with video or be a great iTunes application, so long as it’s designed properly.
This is needed for business, it’s important — they could turn it off just as they would simple finder, but right now it’s holding them back. I can agree ‘hooking’ them might be a happy medium, but that’s not there either… this is the holy grail for mac business arena, something has to give us better than Entourage — and it sucks not only because of bloat, but because it’s designed without the user in mind.
April 5th, 2006 at 5:51 pm
Err… guys. Look at the original post here:
http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?t=291048
ok? done? right. now note the date… 1st April?
April 5th, 2006 at 5:59 pm
Ah, OK. Got me hook, line and sinker :(
Thanks for pointing that out, Chris.
April 5th, 2006 at 7:10 pm
No problems Tim, sorry if i was a bit blunt in pointing it out, was still half asleep, only just got out of bed ;)
December 7th, 2006 at 4:02 am
OK, but… App’s like CRM4Mac do have a place in the Apple Business world whereby individual small apps are linked into a coordinated system. More of this stitching of small apps please.