Apple has already announced that the next version of OS X will be dubbed “Snow Leopard”. It is going to be a “no new features” release, instead focusing on speed, stability, and security. Last night I realized that is not the whole story.
Apple innovates; it is what they do and I don’t think they can’t refrain from innovating. While Snow Leopard adds some cool parallel processing built into the OS, I am positive that is not the only OS innovation Apple is working on.
Snow Leopard is really a “pre-requisite release”. In order to release the next Apple operating system they first need to get some stuff in order under the hood. In order to implement the features that Apple wants to implement next they first need a faster/more stable system. Snow Leopard also buys Apple 1 year of development time.
Any guesses as to what the big new features will be after Snow Leopard?
Here are mine:
- multi-touch (duh)
- voice commands (that actually work)
- 3 dimensional windowing system
