"SproutCore, profiled earlier this week, isn't the only big news spill out from the top secret WWDC conference due to Apple's embrace of open source sharing. Another future technology featured by the Mac maker last week was LLVM, the Low Level Virtual Machine compiler infrastructure project. Like SproutCore, LLVM is neither new nor secret, but both have been hiding from attention due to a thick layer of complexity that has obscured their future potential."
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I'm sure Apple will come up with a features list and sell the Operating System that way. In the age of Vista speed and stability look very good on a feature checklist. Plus we know that their PIM Applications will be gaining Exchange support and I'm sure that they will be further tweaking other aspects of the software. I bet there will be at least a 100 "features" in this next release.
Apple will not give this away for free. There is no reason to. There will be lots of people who will gladly pay $129 for this release just for the Exchange support much less a lot of the advanced development features. I'm personally hoping for Screen Resolution Independence in all bundled applications myself.
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If it brings a 15% speed increase across the board, that's nothing like a service pack. That's equivalent to a hardware upgrade.
It would be nice is Apple released it for free, but if you're a company that had all your engineers working on a product for 2 years, would you release it for free?
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2005-11-10
Why would Apple release Snow Leopard for free? I would think a 15% or more speed increase plus the other stability and programming enhancements would make it worth the upgrade.