A Few Things Not to Expect From Apple
May 11th, 2009As we close in on the WWDC and Apple’s expected new product announcements, there are a number of expectations from both Apple customers and the media. Some will happen, simply because they have already been revealed and it would be foolish to expect otherwise. Some won’t, not because they haven’t been revealed, but because they don’t make much sense.
Look, for example, at Snow Leopard. Apple made it quite clear it will be largely a streamlining and performance upgrade, without a lot of new features. Yet that hasn’t stopped some of the rumor sites from suggesting there are going to be unannounced features thrown in at the last possible moment, thus giving developers little or no time to check them for compatibility with their products prior to 10.6’s release.
Now if you believe this claim, and it does have a romantic ring to it, you have to realize that developers have been seeded with Leopard prereleases since last year. During that time, they have no doubt been working hard to enable their software to harness such features as enhanced multithreading support and the ability to offload some processor tasks to the graphic chips.
