Stephen Withers
Friday, 30 July 2010 10:50
Opinion and Analysis
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Apple's looking for a senior software engineer to "help create something totally new... a new and revolutionary feature for Mac OS X."
One of the complaints about Mac OS X 10.6 was that there wasn't really that much new in it. Even Apple describes it as "Refined not reinvented." When an OS vendor highlights items such as "More reliable disk eject", it's clear that innovation wasn't top of the list.
But to be fair, the focus of Snow Leopard was more about clearing the decks and improving 64-bit and multi-core support.
The implication, then, is that 10.7 will arrive to reward the faithful with a dose of in-your-face innovation rather than the largely under the bonnet changes delivered by 10.6.
Apple's advertising for a senior software engineer with five years of professional experience including internet technologies, especially "close and personal experience with the HTTP protocol as well as other protocols layered atop it, have participated in or lead the architecture of large web scale systems, have shipped multiple 'platforms' for use by millions of users."
In addition, the company wants someone with "a passion for doing 'really hard' things that have never been done before."
What might this "truly revolutionary and really exciting" "new feature in the very foundations of Mac OS X" be? Please
read on.
