What Happened to Piles?
MacEdition first wrote about a new feature called "Piles" -- and even linked to weblog describing Apple's old patent -- Piles.
MacEdition, however, went on to describe Expose:
- Mac OS X 10.3 will finally see the implementation of the piles interface concept patented by Apple back in the dear, dead days of Copland but never delivered to the desktop. The feature, which has been lobbied for by Bruce Tognazzini and other interface curmudgeons, is designed to ease the clutter of windows in the Finder: The Blades sources indicate that extraneous windows will shrink and jump out of the way automatically, rearranging themselves into scaled-down tiles in response to the users movements.)
This description was later lost after more detailed descriptions of Apple's Piles Patent emerged, and overtook the rumors.
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Sure it sounded cool....but what would you really use it for?
Folders accomplish the same thing.
I'm glad we've got Expose instead of Piles.
Expose rocks! That feature alone makes me want to plunk down the $129.
Originally posted by Mudbug
You know, I wondered about this when it first disappeared from the rumor pipeline. I couldn't figure out how so much hubub could be started about something that simply didn't exist. but I'm still a little confused - is expose an implimentation of piles, or something else entirely?
something else entirely
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For my money, Expose is about 100 times more exciting and useful than I ever imagined Piles could be. Bring on Panther!
And for pure entertainment value, I loved the Expose demo in the Keynote:
Steve: Zoom in. *click* Zoom out. *click* Boom. *click* Boom. *click* And Boom. *click*
Entire audience: *stunned silence with big grins*
As a sidenote, Expose also reminded me a little bit of the way that computers were navigated in the movie "Minority Report." Basically, Expose allows the user to stand back and get a general view of everything going on in his computer, then focus in on the task at hand, just like in the movie. So yes, perhaps Expose is just the beginning...
Originally posted by simX
So can we assume that the screenshots of the Piles features were faked?
Yes, someone simply rotated some text clipping icons to create that fake. Piles are neat idea that could further distinguish OS X from other OS's, but it's not doing anything more than folders already do.
However, just like packages have drastically simplified the use of applications by grouping a collection of files into a single icon, I think Piles could do the same for documents. As a web developer, I'm frequently working on groups of related files, so a double-click on a pile to open up one of those groups would be very handy.
Originally posted by jimthorn
[b]Steve: Zoom in. *click* Zoom out. *click* Boom. *click* Boom. *click* And Boom. *click*
Entire audience: *stunned silence with big grins* [/B]
I have 8 more words to add to that:
Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom! :)
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