The Real Reason MacWorld Didn’t Have Anything About Leopard

By Daniel Miessler on January 29th, 2007: Tagged as Apple | Leopard | Microsoft | OS X | Vista | Windows

…he was waiting for Microsoft to have their fun with Vista. Only then will they reveal what they’ve really been doing with Leopard. It’s like poker, you want to be the last one to act.

I expect a repeat of what happened with the iPod and the Zune:

Microsoft: And we present to you the Zune! Now with a wannabe iPod interface! Apple: LOL, we’re doing touch-screens, dumbass. Nice wheel, though…your idea?

So my thought is that Apple is waiting to spring another identical trap on Microsoft. Notice how quiet they’ve been about Leopard for all this time? Nothing at MacWorld — nothing since then. They’re letting Microsoft have its day because they know precisely what Vista has to offer. Steve has all the information and is basically setting them up for complete failure.

As soon as the buzz dies down from Vista, they’re doing to bust out with their equivalent of what the iPhone was to the Zune. In other words, something to make all the Microsoft fanboys who just bought Vista say, “Damn, I hate Apple…Why couldn’t Microsoft do that!?! I should have bought a Mac…”

I don’t know what Apple’s going to do with Leopard that’s going to make Vista look silly, but I have a very strong feeling it’s going to be something major in the UI arena. Hell, I just hope it involves replacing Finder.:

  • http://slashback.org/ Tim

    I think if apple integrated Beryl eyecandy into their UI they’d have Vista beat… but then again one or two of the features of beryl have already been implemented in OS X.

  • http://slashback.org Tim

    I think if apple integrated Beryl eyecandy into their UI they’d have Vista beat… but then again one or two of the features of beryl have already been implemented in OS X.

  • trevor

    “but then again one or two of the features of beryl have already been implemented in OS X.” OSX can already do anything in Beryl, they just don’t because they have better taste. We’ve had a GPU accelerated desktop since 10.2 and 10.4 brought Core Image which means Shaders on the desktop (see dashboard real time ripple effect)

    Kicks the shit out of hacky Beryl basically.

  • trevor

    “but then again one or two of the features of beryl have already been implemented in OS X.” OSX can already do anything in Beryl, they just don’t because they have better taste. We’ve had a GPU accelerated desktop since 10.2 and 10.4 brought Core Image which means Shaders on the desktop (see dashboard real time ripple effect)

    Kicks the shit out of hacky Beryl basically.

  • http://www.stevengharms.com/ Steven G. Harms

    Heh, no need for the Beryl over-kill, I’d go for just having 4 virtual desktops! C’mon everyone knows Expose was like the US space program investing the space pen instead of just using the pencil ( i.e. virtual desktops ).

  • http://www.stevengharms.com Steven G. Harms

    Heh, no need for the Beryl over-kill, I’d go for just having 4 virtual desktops! C’mon everyone knows Expose was like the US space program investing the space pen instead of just using the pencil ( i.e. virtual desktops ).

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