Snow Leopard development gaining pace
From the next-generation Macintosh operating system system department we’ve got good news and bad news. Which would you like to hear first?
AppleInsider claims that the mothership will probably seed [10A314] a fresh developer beta of Mac OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard, sometime this week, which would be the second release this month. Moreover, the write up updates and reiterates the claim that the next Snow Leopard release will be the first unveil major user interface tweaks, an aspect of the OS Apple had previously said it wasn’t planning to change.
Furthermore, it is believed that a Snow Leopard compatible iteration of Apple Remote Desktop (v3.3), a maintenance update, will also be part of the next developer seed.
The sole item of not-so-good news is a bit of informed speculation that says Snow Leopard probably won’t go on sale until August, which to a degree contradicts an earlier claim on Architosh.com that a major Mac developer was preparing an important OS X 10.6-dependent update for release in late June.
See also:
— Apple Snow Leopard and touchscreen netbook
— Developer targets Snow Leopard dependent update
— Latest Snow Leopard seed includes QuickTime Pro for free
— The push is on for Snow Leopard
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I remember hearing it differently. Steve Jobs said that there would be no new features, but that there would be changes under the cover. One of those changes was to move to a 64 bit kernel and a Cocoa finder.
In the process, the many complaints about the inconsistencies in UI between different Applications would be cleared up. We don’t know yet what the official look will be, but is likely to be the same though out all of Apple’s Applications, because they should be using the same Cocoa API’s.