Apple today announced that CEO Steve Jobs will headline a team of Apple executives, including Philip Schiller, senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing; Bertrand Serlet, senior vice president of Software Engineering; and Scott Forstall, vice president of Platform Experience, to kick off the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with a keynote preview of Mac OS X “Leopard” on Monday, August 7, 2006, beginning at 10:00 a.m. at San Francisco’s Moscone West. Throughout WWDC, developers will receive detailed information and best practices on developing Universal applications that take advantage of the performance of Intel-based Macs, including special sessions on performance optimization using Apple software development tools.
The five-day event, which runs from August 7 to August 11, will deliver more than 175 technical sessions and labs with new content designed to serve a wide range of Mac developers, including tracks that preview Leopard and dozens of hands-on labs providing opportunities to work developer-to-developer with Apple engineers.
Other activities at Apple’s WWDC 2006 include:
• presentation sessions led by engineers and experts delivering the technical information needed to take advantage of current technologies in Tiger, and get ready for what’s coming in Leopard
• hands-on sessions that allow developers to bring their notebooks and get firsthand knowledge of Apple’s best practices for leveraging technologies like Spotlight, Core Image, Xgrid, Core Data, Quartz Composer and more
• hands-on, technology specific labs where developers can work one-on-one with Apple engineers to solve problems and answer questions
• extra focus on digital media, system administration, game development and scientific computing communities
• special events and activities including the opening night’s Apple Developer Connection Reception, Apple Design Awards, Stump the Experts and Late Night Labs
The cost of the five-day conference is US$1,595 per attendee, with a $300 Early Registration Discount that has been extended through July 7. Visit Apple’s WWDC website for registration and complete session details at http://developer.apple.com/wwdc
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i bet it ships by Halloween
bac:
I’ll take that bet…
$100 wager?
Reading this press release I think we can discern two things:
1 – This is going to be a pretty exciting release (especially when you have the VP of Platform Expereience mentioned in the press release – Phil Schiller’s usually a given).
2 – The rumors of Apple changing 10.5’s name were wrong.
It’s like Christmas in August!
sure do you take checks…
So we will probably have more demos of iChat with Bertrand drinking his coffee and Phil kissing ass
Hmmmm….Platform Experience….Like the sound of where this is going.
Resolution Independence will be excellent, really looking forward to a new Finder that DOESN’T HANG when a remote volume is not available. I keep asking my colleague to leave her Mac on, but she keeps switching it off. I only realise this when I get a Beachball for 5 minutes, then eventually a message that tells me it’s looking for ‘Cynthia’s Mac’, then the option to disconnect.
Come on Apple, how hard can this be?
I’m guessing they will demonstrate the new video iPod showing a dancing monkey trained to throw chairs and during the presentation will make an intentional verbal slip referring to the monkey character as 10.5 LEPER.
If it ships before Vista, Microsoft should be embarrassed that they could not even make an update to their XP product faster than Apple could release two major updates to their OS.
Lets see. Jobs’ previewed Tiger in June 2004 and it shipped in April 2005. So if he previews Leopard in August 2006, it should ship around June 2007. So if it ships anytime before that, I’ll be pleasantly surprised.
CEO Steve Jobs to preview Mac OS X ‘Leopard’ with team of Apple execs at WWDC 2006 keynote
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And this is what “Leopard” had to say
Darn, can’t hot link the wav. file, sorry.
“Good morning, Dr. Chandra. This is HAL. I’m ready for my first lesson.”
Could one of you loan me $1,595? I’m good for it. Honest.
Perhaps one of the attendees could contact me with a view to taking along a blank DVD and slipping a copy of the new OS on it for me. There’s a biscuit in it for you if you do.
Important – Watch to see if Steve has less face time at this event and his underlings do more of the talking and presenting.
“If it ships before Vista, Microsoft should be embarrassed that they could not even make an update to their XP product faster than Apple could release two major updates to their OS.”
Microsoft should be emaressed anyway.
Is it just two major updates? I thought it was more….
The article mentions the scientific community. Apple needs to provide arguments for these smart folks in universities and corporations, who may be in institutions with Windows desktop only policies, to purchase Macs. Boot Camp and Parallels certainly help. But if Apple were to provide easy to use parallel programming software that is easy for scientists to run their complex models efficiently and effectively, we may be able to get a lot of very bright switchers. I’ve read a bit on Xgrid and it sounds great. But if Apple can really ramp up ease of use on their parallel clustering software, they can steal a market.
Amen, Jim!!
This “bug” has existed forever in OS X it seems. Drives me bonkers.
“Is it just two major updates? I thought it was more….”
It is. Puma (10.1) and XP shipped around the same time. Since then there has been Jaguar, Panther and Tiger. For Microsoft, there has been SP 1 and SP 2 (the equivilents of 10.1.1 and 10.1.2). That’s so pathetic MS should be laughed off of the face of the Earth.
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I expect Leopard will have some new technology that will leverage special abilities of the intel chips, thus Leopard will fuel the switch to intel, for all us of hesitating or holding off as long as we can stand.
jim/blucaso – i might have read it wrong the other day, but they might be fixing that with 10.4.7. that bug irritates the heck out of me too, so maybe they’ll squish it in the next point release! =)
the first listed update was
– preventing AFP deadlocks and dropped connections
here’s hoping
So the real question is should I wait for Leopard before I buy my next new mac?
In Leopard, Windows OS runs in a hidden mode, very similar to OS 9 Classic, so its applications can be run directly and seamlessly from the Mac OS desktop.
Such a solution has Apple’s “perfection via simplicity” fingerprints all over it.