Future of iPhone Apps: Look to Apple's Next-Generation OS, Leopard
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Features in the upcoming release of Apple's operating system, Leopard, may give clues to how iPhone development will work once the iPhone software-development kit appears next year. Of particular interest to developers are Leopard's security features.
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In his 4.5-star (out of 5) review of Leopard, Edward Mendelson  maintains that Leopard is âby far the best operating system ever written for the vast majority of consumers, with dozens of new features that have real practical value.â Mendelson âfound Leopard to be startlingly fast, brilliantly streamlined, and packed with conveniences and innovations. Leopardâs rich set of built-in software runs faster than I imagined possible.â
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âThe grace of Leopardâs interface enhancements makes productivity more pleasurable with a Mac, as more than 300 functional and fun features top off this update,â reports Elsa Wenzel . Awarding it an âExcellent 8 out of 10,â Wenzel maintains that Leopard not only âmakes Macs more enticing than Tiger did,â but that it âmakes it far easier to find documents and applications than Windows Vista. Leopardâs interface niceties made the daily mechanics of using the computer more pleasurable. Mundane chores, such as finding files and backing up data, become a visual treat.â
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Mac OS X Leopard is here, and it brings with it the new Core Animation engine developers can use to create immersive, animated application interfaces. To see what's in store for application design on the Mac, Wired News has an exclusive sneak peek at the next version of Delicious Library.
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Apple gave Apple Developer Connection members a mostly complete version of their latest OS last Friday. Are they getting close to unchaining Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard?
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Now you can browse the files on your Mac as easilyâand enjoyablyâas you breeze through album covers in iTunes or flip through photos on your iPhone or iPod touch. Just choose Cover Flow (a new viewing option in Mac OS X Leopard) instead of Icon, List, or Column view in your Finder window. Learn how you can âGo with the Flowââand pick up some handy keyboard Cover Flow shortcutsâby reading our latest Pro Tip of the Week.
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Leopard, the latest update of the Apple Mac operating system OSX, goes on sale worldwide from 1800 BST.
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While Apple expects its new OS, Leopard, to bring in $140 million between its launch on Friday and the end of the year, analysts think sales will be even stronger.
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More details have emerged about Mac OS X 10.5, the next major update to the Mac operating system that Apple has dubbed "Leopard." While Leopard won't be let out of its cage until October, two Steve Jobs keynote addresses and Apple's Leopard web site have given us some idea of how this latest cat will behave.
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âGiven the impressive value of Time Machine and improvements to existing programs such as iCal, iChat, Mail, and the Finder, most active Mac users will find more than enough reasons to consider [the] upgrade cost money well spent,â reports Jason Snell . Leopard delivers, Snell declares, âa major alteration to the Mac interface, a sweeping update to numerous included productivity programs, a serious attempt to improve Mac OS security, and a vast collection of tweaks and fixes scattered throughout every nook and cranny of the operating system.â
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Blog: What's absent from the iPhone now may be added in the near future.
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First a little background. I stopped using a Mac in 1997, as Apple was transitioning to the new operating system. I started using the Mac again as my primary OS in late 2005, a little more than two years ago. This is the first new version of the OS to come out since I switched back. Based on a tour of the new features, pretty late at the end of a long week, it's safe to say an OS is still just an OS, the purpose of the OS is to stay out of your way until you need it. Leopard may be prettier than the last version, I'm not sure it is or isn't. Not sure I'll use many of the new features. For people who hadn't used VNC before, "screen sharing" would certainly be a big new feature if they're working in a networked enviroment. And maybe the new backup code will fit into my routine. I have some ideas about that. (Maybe I'll just have one computer on my LAN that is backed up and copy things there if I want them backed up.) File sharing is more convenient in Leopard, the shared computers are listed in every Finder window, and this is good. FInding the disks that are available on each of these computers is one step easier too.  The Preferences applicaiton appears largely unchanged, except the Networking section where a lot of functionality seems to be missing. I have to look at this more closely. The Download stack is lost on me since I don't use Safari or Apple's mail app. I would find it useful if Firefox had a similar feature (but they kind of do, I can direct all downloads to a specific folder). All in all, changes to an OS aren't that important. The action is in the apps, and for me, just a couple of primary ones, the web browser and my integrated writing and programming environment. It's been quite a while since there have been meaningful improvements to either, and those improvements would end up meaning a lot more to me than improvements to the OS. There isn't much you can do, after the Mac has been around for 23 years, that hasn't already been done.  Net-net, my first impression of Leopard is that it isn't a big deal one way or the other.  PS: I wonder if the next version of the OS will be called Leonard, to honor Leonard Rosenthal, a famous Mac developer in the 80s and 90s.
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Blog: Exploring future product opportunities using the iPhone's components
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Although the iPhone seemed to overshadow all other Apple news, there was more--including the release of Leopard and more competition for iTunes.
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Appleâs new version of Leopard lists 300 new features, including a Braille font and a Danish spelling checker.
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Blog: Sun says that Apple's forthcoming Leopard operating system will use the next-generation file system called ZFS.
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When Steve Jobs unleashes Mac OS X Leopard on Friday, Mac fans and others considering an Apple computer for the first time will have questions. Is the new Leopard operating system worth the $129 upgrade price? Is it the reason to splurge for a new Mac? Long before Leopard pounced onto the scene, I rated OS X superior to Windows for most consumers. With Leopard, Apple's operating system widens its lead aesthetically and technologically. Whether the sixth major release of OS X in as many years puts a dent in Microsoft's dominant market share is another matter entirely.