Safari is a novel download for now; I'm not prepared to make a call on its suitability as a Firefox or IE challenger on the Windows platform, nor its overall efficiency as a browser; I'm going to suck it and see for a while. It's certainly useful for Windows-based web developers, although it does somewhat remove the justification for having that shiny Mac under your desk...

It's also quite disappointing to say that Safari was the biggest announcement of the keynote. There was no new hardware reveal, and no genuinely exciting new facets of the iPhone or Leopard were uncovered. Leopard is pretty: but we assumed that it would be. The new desktop looks very nice, yet I get the feeling that none of the ten features discussed by Jobs are going to sell new Apple hardware - which is reflected by the drop in their stock price since the keynote.

Apple's reveal on the iPhone's "third party support" was a real damp squib. Compared with their competition - Windows Mobile, and the various flavours of Symbian - support for Javascript applications seems insubstantial. We've already been told that the iPhone runs a "full" version of Safari on the "real" Internet, so it goes without saying that it will support "web 2.0" applications Javascript, and by extension AJAX.

Is Apple's reality distortion field failing? We shall see. I think for now they've had to divert power away from the main engines; they're trying to get both Leopard and, more immediately, the iPhone shipped with success and that's holding up potential new big hardware launches, and those all important new iPod devices.

Once these two milestones are hit, things should really start to get interesting.