“[Apple] CEO Steve Jobs, speaking to thousands of engineers at the company’s Worldwide Developer Conference, showed off Intel-based Macs for professional users and servers for businesses. They replace the last Apple machines to run PowerPC chips built by IBM Corp. and Freescale Semiconductor Inc.,” May Wong reports for The Associated Press.
Wong reports, “Jobs also previewed the upcoming Mac OS X release, dubbed ‘Leopard,’ taking a few swipes at rival Microsoft Corp. and its much-delayed Windows Vista operating system. Since Windows XP was launched in 2001, Apple has released five major updates to Mac OS X. Leopard is expected in spring 2007. ‘Our friends in Redmond, they spend over $5 billion in R&D, but these days they just try to copy Google and Apple,’ Jobs said. ‘So I guess it’s a good example of how money isn’t everything.'”
“The products come as Apple says it is making progress in gaining new Macintosh customers — more than 50 percent of Mac buyers from Apple’s retail stores last quarter were new to the platform, Jobs said,” Wong reports. “Many analysts expect the entire lineup of Macs, which use the same chips as its Windows-based PC rivals, will boost Apple’s overall computer market share in the United States. For years, it has been less than 5 percent.”
“Analysts said Monday doubts surrounding Microsoft’s ability to release Vista by its latest target date of January could further help Apple as the Mac maker is expected to ramp up its marketing campaign for the holidays. Its current ads already attack Windows as riddled with security problems while lacking Apple’s easy-to-use multimedia applications,” Wong reports. ” Van Baker, an analyst at Gartner Inc. said there’s “a distinct possibility” that Leopard now will even come out ahead of Vista. ‘Apple is firing on all cylinders and they are executing on everything they say they will do, which is in stark contrast to its Redmond rival,’ Baker said.”
Wong reports, “Added Gartner analyst Mike McGuire: ‘Apple has built in a future demand for its product and they can also say, ‘By the way, we have all this functionality now that you can’t get with Windows.” The look-and-feel of Vista and some of its features are indeed similar to ones that already exist in the latest version of Mac OS X, also known as Tiger, which was released a year ago and upgraded in January to work on Intel-based machines. Apple made it clear Monday it aims to stay ahead of the innovation curve with Leopard… Jobs told his enthusiastic audience Monday that many other features are planned but will remain ‘top secret’ for now. ‘We don’t want (Microsoft) to start their photocopiers,’ he said.”
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I’l bet a weeks pay… that I’ll be able to buy OS X 10.5 before Windows Vista is available for retail purchase.
I hope they FTFF and include a spreadsheet and a better word processor. (TextEdit ain’t no word processor.)
Apple Sucks
So what? 99% of Windows people have no interest in Apple.
You think Porsche owners are concerned that a new BMW will come out before the next Porsche?
MacSuck,
Hey, even you stupid inbred MICROSOFT dorks must’ve figured out by now that we superior APPLE users are conducting an organized campane today to crush your gay non-news. It’s working too, symbionts- the press is reporting that VISTA is delayed- bwa-ha-haaahhhh!
Notes and To Do’s in Mail– Ooooooohhh, how squishy-crunchy tree-hugging pathetic and queer.
MICROSOFT will be out of business in one year.
bwa-ha-haaahhhh!
@CyberGreg
I’ll take that bet. Your week’s pay vs. my week’s pay. I’m a student so I lose money everyweek. Looks like I’ll be able to afford 10.5.
CyberGreg…
If you were Bill Gates, I’d take that bet. But if you were Steven P Jobs, I wouldn’t.
MacSuck is no Porsche owner!
May be a Yaris-Yawnner owner.
But Windows users are not known to care about quality as they return each new revision of the same problematic software.
I could not compare Windows with a Porsche (ask Porsche if they would like to be compared to the automotive equal of Windows-you may just some serious words as you are thrown out or sued!)
Now we can say that Apple is equal to BMW as BMW or Porsche-I believe-would say, yes, we can be considered the automotive versions of Apple….
What did GM say when Microsoft wanted to install the OS into their cars?
If our cars worked like Windows, it would be lucky if it started in the morning.
No, Windows is for the quality deprived and Apple is for those who care about quality, design, and reliable safe environment.
Just a thought!
There is a distinct possibility that bears crap in the woods.
It’s a SURE bet that Tiger will be out before Vista, and that’s enough reason to buy a Mac.
I think people on these threads are so stupid that they can’t tell a poseur from the real thing.
Yes, Ampar worshipper. Apple sucks. Sucks the wind right out of the sails of bloated, unimaginative CEOs that think they can innovate. Maybe Vista can be packaged with recycled chair splinters.
From the “Duh” file for today…
The FACT of the matter is, MonkeySoftFanBoys, that OS X 10.5 is the FIFTH iteration of a stable, vetted operating system that has YET to see one piece of malware in the real world.
Vista is completely untried, untested, and unknown in the “real IT” world. Nobody is his or her right mind would come within a mile of this OS until the second, perhaps even THIRD, Service Pack is released for it.
Tell me this, MSFB: Would you bet your job on Vista next year (Ha!) in its initial release to the great unwashed Windows world? If so, I have some swamp land in Louisiana I’d love to sell you.
Naivete, thy name is MSFB!
MS Access, Project and Money for Mac OS X will ship before Vista.
(They can keep FrontPage.)
Apple is notorious for under-promising and over-delivering on software. What Jobs and Co demoed today are just a few items to show how they continue to refine the OS, it’s cross app integration and OS services.
With this much lead time Apple would be damn ignorant to show it’s hand with Vista slipping again. Panther was the mature OS that fully delivered on the promise of the original incarnation of OS X & Tiger was the first step to extend the new networked and media-rich environment into the OS and critical apps. Leopard is going to be first based upon a finally mature OS platform not saddled with OS transitions and CPU switches.
For the first time since his Steveness returned to Apple, the hardware and software teams are not:
1- Maturing a newly launched OS while propping up an old creaky one.
2- Preparing for a switch of processors.
3- Scrambling to catch up to a mature and feature rich established OS (XP based upon 2000Pro & NT).
The roadmap for hardware and software is well known for those inside Apple and it’s strategic partners and they have built a very strong foundation going forward. Leopard is going to be built upon that strong foundation and will come out of the box running while MS and 3rd party developers struggle with a new set of APis a new file system, etc. The roles have reversed and Apple is coming out of the trial of fire strong and well tested.
You heard it here first- Apple will continue to slowly gain market share through the rest of Tiger’s tenure and break out after the full features of Leopard are revealed, probably MWSF 2007. By the time VISTA struggles out the door Apple will have a robust and full featured Leopard, a full suite of Universal Pro Apps (Adobe, etc) and a revised set of consumer Macs to run on.
By Christmas 2006 expect Apple to have a 20%+ US laptop market share and a 12-15% desktop share in the US. By the time school lets out early next summer they will be pushing 25%+ in US laptops and close to 20% on the desktop. When you stop laughing use your head and consider what is happening. The tipping point is the spring of 2007. The current price of Apple stock will look very cheap this time next year.
Hey Ampy ol’ buddy, sorry for your troll troubles. I’d like to think my nic’s too hard to spell for these goobers to pose as me, but I’m sure that my lame posts are the real reson. LOL
Here’s to your infamy!
As to Leopard’s potential… please please please improve the Finder. No specific suggestions of my own here, but I agree with some others given over the past year.
NGC598—-campane?? Hahahahahahahahha. Cal. school?
No sweat, Artisticulated! No doubt something like Artesticular would be way beyond their limited acumen!
Here’s to our infamy!
P.S. And don’t worry. They obviously can’t read either.
Distinct possibility?! It’s a foregone conclusion.
NGC598
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http://www.licha.de/astro_photo_343.php
There is little revealed about Leopard so far. This is a sensible move as Jobs and Co. certainly don’t want Gates and Co copying too much. What has been revealed, however is intention. Time Machine demonstrates a very powerful feature, not just for desktops, but for servers. Imagine a sysadmin, who stuffs up an installation, or installs the wrong version of something, or sets up the qrong bash scripts etc. etc. With Time Machine all that delicate, but wrong configuration work is easily undone.
Virtual desktops is a feature that developers and server admins are also very fond of.
These additions, I believe, signal a move to the enterprise. I think we can expect many more features along these lines, along with a lot of under-the-hood improvements apart from the 64-bit cleanliness.
MW: simply…give it up Microsoft
“It’s a SURE bet that Tiger will be out before Vista, and that’s enough reason to buy a Mac.”
You’re an identity thief and bloody stupid to boot. Tiger has been out for months it is Leopard that is forthcoming.
MW = less
as in. The Real Elmer F.U.D., accept nothing less.