Apple today invited Apple Developer Connection members via email (see image below) to register for the Worldwide Developers Conference 2006 (WWDC 2006) and promised a “sneak peek preview” of Leopard, “Apple’s next major release of Mac OS X.” Apple’s WWDC 2006 runs August 7-11 in San Francisco, CA.
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Yes and some people seem to be obsessed with trolling on this site.
I think Apple is being deliberately vague with the sessions this year vs. all the rest because they don’t want to spill the beans early. I don’t know what will be in Leopard, but I think it will be REALLY big and super freakin’ sweet!
4 things I’d like to see:
Dashboard folders – a way to have whole dashboards ready to go so you don’t have keep dragging widgets on and off.
3rd party application updates – that would be sweet! Update your whole system in one fell swope. Hopefully, Apple will at least have automatic widget updates through software update in Leopard. I was hoping for this in 10.4.6.
Boot Camp as a virtualization technology.
XCode as a Winblows program also, so Winblows developers can code for Winblows and then hit a button and it recompiles in Cocoa.
I have this feeling that 10.5 is what Apple has been building to since the inception of OSX… its the midpoint between 10 and 11, a good time to introduce the Next Big Thing.
What will it be… a completely re-designed finder with some amazing new features? A way to run Windows apps, including games, without booting?
Difficult to tell. It seems like the OS updates up to 10.3 were mostly polishing up OSX’s flaws, and 10.4 was rounding out a few features along with a bit of extra polish. In short, all the OS updates to date seem to have been evolutionary, rather than the revolutionary change that OS9 -> OSX has been.
Could 10.5 be the update to dwarf all previous updates, bringing truly new and innovative changes that are revolutionary, instead of merely evolutionary?
So, does that mean…. they are going to let the cat out of the bag? Couldn’t resist.
I’m with Jim – the networking code is an embarrassment. Even to me, a die-hard Mac guy, I have to convince people that their Mac hasn’t crashed when a network connection is lost.
Don’t know what I mean? Simple. If you have two Macs, and go to the Network pane and connect to the second Mac (that is, if it comes up correctly, and if it finds it on the network – woe be you if you’re on a router that serves dynamic IP addresses and the hard drive is named Macintosh HD – the default name- and the IP address changed recently… then your finder might not even find it)
But let’s say you’ve got that little networked hard drive on your desktop. Now go put that second computer to sleep.
Then try and open that networked disk. Now, if you were smart, you’d guess that you’d get a little error box telling you that the disk is no longer available.
You’d be right too… about 5 or 10 full minutes later. In the meantime? How about a spinning wheel? How about no Finder functionality for 5 minutes? Sound good? Cause that’s what you’re gonna get.
And this has been like this for how long? How hard can it be to set a retry maximum of like 15 seconds on network disks and then give an error message?
Awful, just awful. And this just bewilders average users who don’t know what’s happening. One person in my office was trying to Force Quit the finder, and then trying to restart the computer. All failing. So he goes to a hard reboot.
This just shouldn’t happen on a daily commonplace operation.
Anybody listening at Apple? Come on, fix this already!
MW: added
As in, here’s a bit of ‘added’ functionality I’d like in Leopard, if not sooner!
This would suggestion, at least in my estimation, that OS X 10.5 will be released to the public in January 07 at MacWorld Expo. AHEAD of Vista.
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Blucaso,
I’ve never had that happen to me. Although, my situation may be a little different. I have a desktop (Cube) and a PowerBook that I network wirelessly frequently. I must admit though that I have never tried turning off the desktop and seeing what happens with the PowerBook. Also, when I do connect the two (via “Connect to Server”), I have dumbfounded my PeeCee-using friends with how easy and lightning quick it is to do. The drag and drop between the two always impresses the hell out of them!
@Cubert – “Dashboard folders – a way to have whole dashboards ready to go so you don’t have to keep dragging widgets on and off.”
Cool idea- I like it.
Yeah, the finder needs to be totally rewritten as others have stated. I believe there was also talk from Apple that Spotlight is having a major upgrade as well (it was in some article MDN posted not too long ago). Although some people don’t like widgets being modal (in other words, you have to open the dashboard to see them and can’t just drop one anywhere you wish), I prefer it that way – less clutter. Possibly they will include the option to drag and drop ’em anywhere you want (there are already utilities out there to do this). I like the way it is implemented now – I hope they don’t change that or at least keep it an option.
Should see some cool things in Leopard (Apple already knows not to bloat). And, as always – SPEED – anywhere I can get it.
One more thing – Although most of you probably already know this, I’ll post it anyway. If you want a feature or enhancement to the OS, you can give Apple feedback HERE
<u>All suggestions of course become the property of Apple.</u> They won’t respond unless they need follow-up info, but they do state that EVERY suggestion is reviewed by the Mac OS development team. Nice to know they listen…
ironic that i just experienced the finder networking junk discussed above.
the finder itself works fine for me, but THAT aspect of it needs to be addressed. other than that, OS X networking is far superior to windows in my experience – apple, just fix that stupid network share crap!
i, along with all the rest of you, am pretty excited to see what happens with 10.5.