Apple to ship 2 millionth copy of Tiger; Leopard due by 2007
Apple today announced it expects to deliver the two millionth copy of Mac OS X version 10.4 âTigerâ by the end of this week — just six week's after the software went on sale to the public.
Developer support for Tiger is also setting new records with hundreds of developers including Microsoft and Adobe announcing support for Tiger, Apple said. To date third party developers have released more than 400 Dashboard widgets, 550 Automator actions and 40 Spotlight plug-ins for Tiger.
âThe response to Tiger is off the charts,â said Steve Jobs, Appleâs CEO. âCritics are raving, customers are delighted and developers are creating hundreds of widgets and applications that take advantage of Tigerâs incredible innovations like Spotlight, Dashboard and Automator.â
During his opening speech this morning at the company's annual World Wide Developers Conference, Jobs announced that the next — and fifth — major revision of the Mac OS X operating system will be called "Leopard."
âWeâre not going to be focusing on it at this conference today, but [...] we intend to release Leopard at the end of 2006 or early 2007 — right around the time Microsoft expects to release Longhorn,â he said.
Jobs promised more information of Leopard (presumably Mac OS X 10.5) during next year's developers conference.
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I thought the OS upgrade cycle was slowing down. Thumbs-down.
Yes, 18 month cycles...from 12 month cycles
Not as long as there are 1,999,999 people out there like myself (by the end of this week).
I would venture a guess that the next version of OS X would be the one that will be fully compatible with Intel Processors. Otherwise, all it would be is a figure to go against Longhorn.
I doubt there will be many switches from Mac to Longhorn, do you think? I know a lot of people come to Mac because they don't have to screw with viri and such. Are we ever going to need to worry about that? I guess after all I could just turn off the Airport connection on the mac... when I don't need it. Most of the mac's use is recording. And I will be with Apple until they (Or I myself) die. Apple's music and video production has amazed me.
I would venture a guess that the next version of OS X would be the one that will be fully compatible with Intel Processors.
Every version of OSX todate has been fully compatible with Intel chips. Did you watch the keynote?