Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
With Mac OS X 10.5 being a bit of a lame leopard thanks to all manner
of wireless and other minor-ish issues, the best way to move forward
may well be... to release a whole new point upgrade! Rumour is that
Apple will do just this at the WWDC.
TUAW – those unofficial Apple webloggers – have come out with what sounds like a cunning plan by Apple to leave the woes of Mac OS X 10.5 in the past by wiping it out with a new 10.6 version.
TUAW says that OS X 10.6 will purely focus on “stability and security” – something vital for any computing system – and vital to restoring the shine that OS X has had in comparison with XP and Vista for being easy to use, more secure and much more stable.
But 10.6 won’t actually be launched at the WWDC – only the beta, with the “gold master” due for December 2008, giving Apple plenty of time to actually ensure that 10.6 really is “secure and stable” and not a rush job which sees plenty of issues pop up later, something that has a history of happening with any new product from anyone.
Thus, 10.6 will probably have issues of its own anyway, but if Apple really puts its developers’ noses to the grindstone, and tests tests tests ... it will hopefully avoid the horrors that Microsoft experienced with Vista SP1 and and XP SP3.
But TUAW also exposes another element of Apple’s secret plan: the ditching of support for the PowerPC platform in OS X 10.6 – for Intel Macs only!
No doubt this will lead, if true, to howls of protest from loyal Power PC users, and leads TUAW to question just how much longer Universal applications will be supported.
No doubt Steve Jobs will shine some light on these claims in five days time, while those with Power PC fleets of Macs start thinking about how long it will be before new versions of software force them to upgrade at last, although realistically those kinds of decisions are still some time away yet.
5 more sleeps to go before we know... about the 3G iPhone, and the truth of this new OS X 10.6 rumour!
David Bass
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